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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2009-01-22 01:02:35 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-01-21 22:46:52 -0800
commit4a16d072723b48699ea162da24eff05eba298834 (patch)
tree04d834214e8448f254118278ec057c77e3f8f1f1 /sigchain.h
parent479b0ae81c9291a8bb8d7b2347cc58eeaa701304 (diff)
downloadgit-4a16d072723b48699ea162da24eff05eba298834.tar.gz
chain kill signals for cleanup functions
If a piece of code wanted to do some cleanup before exiting (e.g., cleaning up a lockfile or a tempfile), our usual strategy was to install a signal handler that did something like this: do_cleanup(); /* actual work */ signal(signo, SIG_DFL); /* restore previous behavior */ raise(signo); /* deliver signal, killing ourselves */ For a single handler, this works fine. However, if we want to clean up two _different_ things, we run into a problem. The most recently installed handler will run, but when it removes itself as a handler, it doesn't put back the first handler. This patch introduces sigchain, a tiny library for handling a stack of signal handlers. You sigchain_push each handler, and use sigchain_pop to restore whoever was before you in the stack. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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+#ifndef SIGCHAIN_H
+#define SIGCHAIN_H
+
+typedef void (*sigchain_fun)(int);
+
+int sigchain_push(int sig, sigchain_fun f);
+int sigchain_pop(int sig);
+
+#endif /* SIGCHAIN_H */