Are there any special considerations needed to use Linux signals (in particular sigalarm) or forks from within a custom GnuRadio C++ block?
Background information: I'm written a block that consumes an HDLC/MPoFR bitstream and extracts and forwards any contained IP packets. The block generates a number of data and error statistics which I would like to periodically send to another system via a UDP packet, at a rate which is unrelated to the block's sample rate. My thought is to use alarm() to generate a sigalarm every reporting interval, and register a private method as the signal handler. If the reporting ends up taking too long, I would use a fork from within the signal handler and do the reporting in the child process. Is this approach workable within the GnuRadio framework? Or are there interactions with the scheduler and/or the use of threads that render it unworkable or unreliable? Thanks in advance! @(^.^)@ Ed _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
