[TUHS] Re {TUHS} Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> Signal() was there first and foremost to support SIGKILL; it did not 
> purport to provide a sound basis for asynchronous IPC.

Yeah, brother.  In a previous life, I got burned very badly when I relied 
upon signals Doing the Right Thing [tm].

I think it was dump/restor, on a BSDi box; the damned thing communicated 
betwixt its child processes with signals, and I lost every backup tape 
without realising it.

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