[Interest] proper (silent) exit in response to SIGHUP - and signal/slot serialisation?

[René J. V. Bertin]

Thiago Macieira wrote:

>> delivered. I can fix that by forcing a Qt::DirectConnection, which seems to
>> be signal safe (according to a sig_atomic_t state "inSignalHandler" var)
>> but is it?
> 
> QMetaObject::activate() locks a mutex, so it's not async-signal-safe. That
> means you cannot emit a Qt signal from your Unix signal handler.

Yeah, I got things confused there. Again. Of course the Qt signal isn't sent 
from within the signal handler.

So concretely, if I really wanted to call the slot before a previous call 
finished I'd have to use a 2nd QSocketNotifier, possibly even watching a second 
pipe?