Today, May the 30th, was my last day as a Mozilla employee. In a couple weeks, my wife, my cat and I will be on board of a flight heading about ten thousand kilometers east, and most of our stuff will be in some container on a boat. We’re moving to Japan. As adventurous as [...]

When you want to set signal handlers on UNIX systems, the typical choice is to use signal (specified in C89, C99 and POSIX.1-2001) or sigaction (specified in POSIX.1-2001 and System V r4). Quoting the signal manual page: The only portable use of signal() is to set a signal’s disposition to SIG_DFL or SIG_IGN. The semantics [...]