[Interest] proper (silent) exit in response to SIGHUP?

[René J. V. Bertin]

Thiago Macieira wrote:

> I wasn't joking. The Unix systems often copy neat features from one another
> when one innovates ahead of the others. I have a pending patch for Linux
> copying OpenBSD's O_NOSIGPIPE option but I have yet to finish it.

So you meant "ask to incorporate this here implementation". That might work for 
Linux, possibly (Free)BSD which are open source ... but I wouldn't keep my hopes 
up with the likes of Apple.

> QEventDispatcherCoreFoundation. But looking at the sources, it seems that the
> event dispatcher is created on-demand by the first QEventLoop or by calling
> exec(), so the file descriptor won't be opened until then.

So I wasn't completely blind - a thread that just lives its own life and doesn't 
interact with others through Qt mechanism could do without the pipes, but how 
much other overhead?

R.