Mixed Signals (or, Why Hasn't This Been Solved Yet?)
POSIX signals have a long history and at least a couple unpleasant limitations. For one thing, with some threading implementations (those with fewer processes than threads) you can’t reliably target a specific thread as a signal recipient. However, luckily for me, that is not my problem.
My problem is both organizational and technical. Signal masks are for an entire process, and that means that masking … Read More