Re: How to make a static Lua?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Daurnimator once stated:
> On 17 April 2016 at 13:12, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> >>
> > * This entire file exists *because* I can't properly handle SIGCHLD in the
> > * server process.  What I want to do is just get the reason for a handler
> > * process terminating, but not wanting to deal with EINTR, so I set the
> > * handler to restart system calls.  But while I can do that in Lua, the Lua
> > * signal handler doesn't get control until the Lua VM gets control, and if
> > * we're sitting in a system call, that might take some time.  So, we do this
> > * in C, which can get the job done.
> > *
> > * This code is straightforward---just export a single function to Lua that
> > * run called, catches SIGCHLD, and the signal handler will reap the
> > * children.
> 
> What's wrong with using signalfd? (or on a BSD: kqueue with EVFILT_SIGNAL)
> When your signalfd for SIGCHLD polls ready, call wait() with NOHANG
> until it doesn't return a pid.

  It isn't portable (why yes, I'm still using a Linux system without it).

  -spc (Not to mention that signals are probably the worst abstraction to
	come out of Unix ...)