The Goal: I am attempting to monitor a file that is subject to being moved or deleted at any time. If and when it is, I’d like to re-generate this file so that an app can continue to write to it. Attempted: I have attempted to do this by implementing two functions, monitorFile() to listen for fsnotify e…
Tag: concurrency
how to output only when command finish
I’m running multiple commands using &: This doesn’t work well because the output lines are interleaved. I want each curl to hold its output, until it’s done. How to do that? I understand I can use temp files, concat together and delete afterwards. Are there better ways? Answer You could …
access order of std::atomic bool variable
I’ve a function that accesses(reads and writes to) a std::atomic<bool> variable. I’m trying to understand the order of execution of instructions so as to decide whether atomic will suffice or will I’ve to use mutexes here. The function is given below – I’ve read this page o…
Safe global state for signal handling
I am toying around with Rust and various UNIX libraries. A use-case that I have right now is that I want to react to POSIX signals. To keep things reasonable I want to create an abstraction over the signal handling so that the rest of my program doesn’t have to worry about them as much. Let’s call…