[SDL] How to send a signal to SDL application?

[Simon Posnjak]

Why? Because I would like to handle the signal through SDL_event loop
via SDL_SysWMmsg. The way you recommend to do it is not "safe".

Regards Simon

On 8/14/07, Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens at 1541.org> wrote:
> "Simon Posnjak" <sposnjak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would like to send the application an signal
> > (SIGUSER1/SIGUSER2) and I would like that SDL would catch them.
>
> huh? why should SDL handle your signals? and what do you want SDL to do
> when it catches it? and how is SDL supposed to know what you want?
>
> i guess you simply want to install a signal handler in your app and
> catch the signal on your own.
>
> man signal
>
> in a nutshell:
>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <signal.h>
>
> static int running = 1;
>
> static void handler(int sig) {
>         printf("got signal %i\n", sig);
>         running = 0;
> }
>
> int main() {
>         signal(SIGUSR1, handler);
>         signal(SIGUSR2, handler);
>
>         while (running) usleep(10000);
>
>         return (0);
> }
>
> regards ...
> clemens
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