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<p>Yes, I realised that when I started tinkering with the various std::atomic* types.</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><div class="remarkup-code-block" style="margin: 12px 0;" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code" style="font: 11px/15px "Menlo", "Consolas", "Monaco", monospace; padding: 12px; margin: 0; background: rgba(71, 87, 120, 0.08);">There is a race condition anyway which you won't get rid of using atomics: another signal could have overwritten `signalReceived` before you read it.</pre></div></blockquote>
<p>Indeed. I did use the value written to the pipe at first, but that feels a bit awkward and I don't know to what extent we can be certain that the read won't block and/or will always read the actual (entire) value.<br />
Either way, I decided that this race condition is not an issue:</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">signalReceived can only take values that correspond to the signals we handle</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">currently all signals trigger the same series of reactions</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">if 2 signals arrive so quickly one after another that the socketnotifier didn't have time to react it doesn't seem unreasonable to let the later signal override the earlier signal.</li>
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