Synchronous method in asynchronous signal callback

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 26 May 2015 19:27:48 Simon McVittie wrote:
> Hence my tendency to recommend "if you can, use GLib or similar; if you
> think you can't, reconsider your constraints before proceeding" over
> reinventing it for the nth time.

And I'm going to echo this. Remember: I'm a C++ developer and wouldn't choose 
C for a project unless I had to.

If you're going to write anything non-trivial in C, PLEASE do us all a favour 
and use Glib.

Please don't reinvent the wheel, poorly. Please don't write your hashing 
algorithms which aren't optimal. Please don't introduce security holes by not 
parsing UTF-8 overlong sequences properly. Please don't write your mainloops 
that don't do synchronised systemwide wakeups to save power. Please don't 
write libraries that fail to handle EINTR properly or that leak file 
descriptors due to failure to use O_CLOEXEC & family.

PS: C++ Standard Library has hashing tables, but none of the rest I talked 
about either.
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