I have a resource manager and I would like to have a signal that tells it to
reinitialize itself. What function to I have to override to receive signal?
Which signal would make sense to use? SIGHUP maybe?
Chris Rose <rose_chris@excite.com> wrote:
I have a resource manager and I would like to have a signal that tells it to
reinitialize itself. What function to I have to override to receive signal?
There aren’t any callbacks for handling signals.
But if you take a look at cvs.qnx.com, you can see that dispatch_block()
will return NULL if the MsgReceive is interrupted by a signal.
So, you could just attach a signal handler, (sigaction()) and handle
the signal and also check dispatch_block() for a NULL return.
Of course, this does give the issue of what happens if the signal hits
while you’re not in dispatch_block() and all the messiness with that.
If you’re using a threadpool, this is messier, I’m not sure what to
do for that.
So, what I’d do:
– create a thread to handle signals; probably use sigwaitinfo() to block
waiting for the signals in it
– when the signal is received, send a re-init pulse to your resmgr
channel (message_connect() will get you a connection to your resmgr
channel)
– mask all signals in your main thread, the one that is going to go
into you dispatch_block() loop (or the one that will start the thread
pool, since signal mask will be inherited by the thread pool threads)
– attach a pulse handler for your re-initialize pule (this is done to
“reserve” that pulse for your re-init, so it doesn’t get allocated for
something else)
– put code between the dispatch_block() and dispatch_handle() call to
check for your re-init pulse, and if received, to re-init; i.e. break
out of your dispatch loop, do the appropriate re-init, and re-start the
dispatch loop
Which signal would make sense to use? SIGHUP maybe?
SIGHUP has traditionally been used in (some) Unixes as a “re-init”
option. But, they didn’t have lots of spare signals to choose from.
Since you have a set of signals without pre-defined meaning in SIGRTMIN
through SIGRTMAX, I’d choose one of those, rather than overloading SIGHUP.
-David
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