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-/* Emergency actions in case of a fatal signal.
- Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2009-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
-
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
-
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C" {
-#endif
-
-
-/* It is often useful to do some cleanup action when a usually fatal signal
- terminates the process, like removing a temporary file or killing a
- subprocess that may be stuck waiting for a device, pipe or network input.
- Such signals are SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGPIPE, SIGTERM, and possibly others.
- The limitation of this facility is that it cannot work for SIGKILL.
-
- Signals with a SIG_IGN handler are considered to be non-fatal. The
- functions in this file assume that when a SIG_IGN handler is installed
- for a signal, it was installed before any functions in this file were
- called and it stays so for the whole lifetime of the process. */
-
-/* Register a cleanup function to be executed when a catchable fatal signal
- occurs.
-
- Restrictions for the cleanup function:
- - The cleanup function can do all kinds of system calls.
- - It can also access application dependent memory locations and data
- structures provided they are in a consistent state. One way to ensure
- this is through block_fatal_signals()/unblock_fatal_signals(), see
- below. Another - more tricky - way to ensure this is the careful use
- of 'volatile'.
- However,
- - malloc() and similarly complex facilities are not safe to be called
- because they are not guaranteed to be in a consistent state.
- - Also, the cleanup function must not block the catchable fatal signals
- and leave them blocked upon return.
-
- The cleanup function is executed asynchronously. It is unspecified
- whether during its execution the catchable fatal signals are blocked
- or not. */
-extern void at_fatal_signal (void (*function) (void));
-
-
-/* Sometimes it is necessary to block the usually fatal signals while the
- data structures being accessed by the cleanup action are being built or
- reorganized. This is the case, for example, when a temporary file or
- directory is created through mkstemp() or mkdtemp(), because these
- functions create the temporary file or directory _before_ returning its
- name to the application. */
-
-/* Temporarily delay the catchable fatal signals.
- The signals will be blocked (= delayed) until the next call to
- unblock_fatal_signals(). If the signals are already blocked, a further
- call to block_fatal_signals() has no effect. */
-extern void block_fatal_signals (void);
-
-/* Stop delaying the catchable fatal signals. */
-extern void unblock_fatal_signals (void);
-
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-}
-#endif