Carl Eugen Hoyos (2018-01-18): > We have disagreed in the past about pkg-config, > you don't want me to test FFmpeg on less common > systems, fine.
This is untrue. I have offered you help to find a work-flow to test FFmpeg on less common systems while playing nice with pkg-config, but you never accepted. > Now you are again behaving childishly, be it because > you don't like a patch, be it because you are in a > bad mood. Neither. Let me explain one last time. Unix signals are an abomination, their behaviour is barely portable, made mostly of undefined or implementation-defined behaviours, with a lot of strange corner cases. They are also a very fragile edifice, with some signals playing a very subtle but absolutely necessary role in the correct workings of the system. Programming with Unix signals should be reserved to very skilled programmers. I usually do not even trust myself to touch them, except in the simplest of cases; yet, if I say so myself, I think when it comes to Unix system programming, I am rather ahead here. I would not oppose a patch from a skilled Unix programmer who explains the details of the behaviour changes and why they are good. But if somebody just copy-paste a bit of code that looks vaguely similar and says "I do not know what I am doing but it seems to fix my particular use case", then I oppose. It would make things worse. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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