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Thinking I could clean up my files in a SIGINT handler (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why should the environment make a difference when it comes to receiving the SIGINT when the process gets killed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They responded to the wrong post. They’re likely thinking of the auto start post.

[–] Maddier1993 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oops yeah you're right. Sorry OP. There's nothing better than using a database that flushes to disk often enough that missing a small chunk of data due to interruptions should be fine. Probably some kind of memory mapped IO on top of eager writing filesystem should do a good enough job.