mercredi 2 septembre 2015

Is std::atomic signal-safe?

I am working on a Linux app, which needs to be able to handle large bursts of signals. Although the signal handlers will run fast (I plan at most some thousands of cpu cycles), the signals will come in big bursts, and ideally I would completely disable signal masking (even not themselfes, see SA_NODEFER in sigaction).

Thus, I need to implement the signal handlers on a completely reentrant way. I think std::atomic would be an useful thing for the task, but I think, std::atomic was developed to handle thread-based race conditions, and not necessarily race problems coming from stacked on signal handlers.

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