I'm a software engineer living in Brooklyn, NY, with particular interests in operating systems infrastructure, secure computing, and the like. You can probably find me in a coffee shop reading about terminal emulation, writing dynamic libraries to do strange things , or occasionally working on my Debian packages.
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UNIX (well, POSIX) signals are probably one of the worst parts of the UNIX API, and that’s a relatively high bar. A signal can be sent to your program at any point when it’s running, and you have to deal with it somehow. Traditionally, there are three ways …