Re: Signal handling

Is it realistic to search the process table for the application after 
receiving a SIGTERM to determine whether or not to unregister the 
application?

Swade


>From: John Ogness <[email protected]>
>To: Jaroslav Suchanek <[email protected]>
>CC: Dazuko devel <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Dazuko-devel] Signal handling
>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:22:47 +0200
>
>Hi,
>
>Which version of Dazuko are you using? This is a bit of a controversial
>issue, and I am not sure how to handle it.
>
>In the new pre-release version of Dazuko, a SIGTERM to the registered
>application will not only cause dazukoGetAccess to return with an error,
>but it will also unregister the applicatoin with Dazuko!
>
>This would be dangerous for applications that will continue working,
>even though a SIGTERM has been sent. The advantage of this, is it allows
>Dazuko to avoid problems of applications not unregistering themselves
>before they quit. However, I am not happy about this and will be
>changing it before the next version is released.
>
>So what should Dazuko do?
>
>Do you think dazukoGetAccess should continue blocking, even though a
>SIGTERM has been sent? In my opinion this is not an option, since the
>application *must* have a chance to exit if it wants.
>
>A good solution would be if different error codes were returned (rather
>than simply !0). Then you could know if dazukoGetAccess failed because
>of some real problem, or because an interruption signal was sent. What
>do you think?
>
>John Ogness
>
>
>Jaroslav Suchanek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it correct, that after sending signal (e.g. SIGTERM) function
> > dazukoGetAccess always return error code?
> >
> > Is there any way, how to handle signal and continue working with dazuko?
> >
> > Thanks for all ideas,
> >
> > Jaroslav Suchanek
>
>
>
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