Synchronous method in asynchronous signal callback

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 26 May 2015 12:01:37 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

BTW, anyone from Glib talking to WG14 about complementing the C standard 
library?

Qt and Boost interact a lot with WG21 about extending the C++ standard 
library. The new Technical Specification on networking is based on Boost's 
Asio; the TS on URLs has a lot of learnings from Qt's QUrl.

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