From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-05-17 19:40:40


On 16/05/2020 20:46, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:

>> Regarding blocking signals, I agree this is not really something
>> that should be part of the interprocess synchronisation primitives,
>> but I do think that a modern wrapper around the ancient C signals
>> API would be good to have.
>
> I agree, although given that there are many different ways to handle
> signals, I have a hard time imagining what such a wrapper would look like.

The latest revision of the "modern signals" paper can be found at
https://wg21.link/P2069.

Last month WG14 and the Austin Working Group reviewed it, and agreed
with something close to it, in principle. Modulo bikeshed renaming,
obviously.

Niall