[Development] Cleanup of QCoreApplication::watchUnixSignal

[shane.kearns at accenture.com]

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> From: development-bounces+shane.kearns=accenture.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:development-bounces+shane.kearns=accenture.com at qt-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Rafael Roquetto
> Sent: 25 October 2012 15:17
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] Cleanup of QCoreApplication::watchUnixSignal
>
> Hello,
>
> Afaik QCoreApplication::watchUnixSignal() seems to be no longer used,
> at least in Qt5. If that is really the case, would anyone object doing
> away with it (and removing the overhead from
> QEventDispatchUnix::doSelect() and co.)?
> Otherwise, what are the possible use cases?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>  - Rafael

The overhead is tiny (two integer comparisons) when it is not being used.

Crash reporting is not a valid use case (since behaviour is undefined after returning from the signal handler)
The most reasonable use case would be handling SIGHUP and SIGTERM, to save state and shut down the process cleanly.


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