[MPlayer-dev-eng] using strace -p on running mplayer (streamdump) kills mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 24 Feb 2012, at 03:07, Oliver <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> In general it would be better to use sigaction()-semantics for signalling
> instead of signal(), so that signalling will become reliable.

sigaction is not generally available, whether the useful stuff like SA_RESTART actually works on a given OS is completely unpredictable etc.
So I very much disagree that it does more than reduce portability and give a false sense of security for anyone supporting more than Linux.