The fact that it's hard is all the more reason to provide a mechanism that
does it right.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> You are probably going to have to use ccall anyway to do things like save
> state.  Only a limited set of system calls are available to signal
> handlers, see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html, and you
> can't rely on normal Julia IO to only use the allowed ones.  Same for
> anything else that uses system calls.
>
>
> On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:29:26 PM UTC+10, John Travers wrote:
>>
>> I know this, but this can be very important for codes running on
>> simulation servers. Often signals are used to tell a process to save state
>> and shut down as it is going to be moved to another system or the server
>> needs maintenance. I have to handle SIGINT to do exactly this on our
>> simulation systems (currently I run python and C++ codes which can do
>> this). For this reason it would be useful to easily register julia
>> functions as signal handlers so that we can achieve something like this.
>>
>> Of course I could ccall, but I'd rather have an official way to do this.
>>
>> On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 1:55:04 PM UTC+1, Yichao Yu wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:37 AM, John Travers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > No, I'm looking for operating system signal handling, like SIGINT etc.
>>> > Something like the python `signal` module.
>>>
>>> Note that the signal handler is global and julia relies on a number of
>>> them to function correctly.
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 11:25:13 AM UTC+1, Eric Forgy wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Is this what you are looking for?
>>> >>
>>> >> http://julialang.org/Reactive.jl/
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 6:16:20 PM UTC+8, John Travers
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Is there a way to handle signals in julia (i.e. to register handlers
>>> >>> etc.)?
>>> >>>
>>> >
>>>
>>

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