[Interest] Connecting signal handler to Qt application - async-handler-safety

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 15/06/20 12:58, Bernhard Lindner ha scritto:
> 
> Are there any functions in Qt that are considered async-handler-safe?

No, as any of them may allocate memory.

See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/unix-signals.html for the textbook solution 
(self pipe trick).

On Linux you can also use signalfd(2) to achieve the same without the 
burden of a custom signal handler.

HTH,
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