sigwatch.cpp

/*
 * Unix signal watcher for Qt.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2014 Simon Knopp
 *
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 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 *
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 *
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 * SOFTWARE.
 */

#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <QMap>
#include <QSocketNotifier>
#include <QDebug>
#include "sigwatch.h"


/*!
 * \brief The UnixSignalWatcherPrivate class implements the back-end signal
 * handling for the UnixSignalWatcher.
 *
 * \see http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/unix-signals.html
 */
class UnixSignalWatcherPrivate : public QObject
{
    UnixSignalWatcher * const q_ptr;
    Q_DECLARE_PUBLIC(UnixSignalWatcher)

public:
    UnixSignalWatcherPrivate(UnixSignalWatcher *q);
    ~UnixSignalWatcherPrivate();

    void watchForSignal(int signal);
    static void signalHandler(int signal);

    void _q_onNotify(int sockfd);

private:
    static int sockpair[2];
    QSocketNotifier *notifier;
    QList<int> watchedSignals;
};


int UnixSignalWatcherPrivate::sockpair[2];

UnixSignalWatcherPrivate::UnixSignalWatcherPrivate(UnixSignalWatcher *q) :
    q_ptr(q)
{
    // Create socket pair
    if (::socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sockpair)) {

        return;
    }

    // Create a notifier for the read end of the pair
    notifier = new QSocketNotifier(sockpair[1], QSocketNotifier::Read);
    QObject::connect(notifier, SIGNAL(activated(int)), q, SLOT(_q_onNotify(int)));
    notifier->setEnabled(true);
}

UnixSignalWatcherPrivate::~UnixSignalWatcherPrivate()
{
    delete notifier;
}

/*!
 * Registers a handler for the given Unix \a signal. The handler will write to
 * a socket pair, the other end of which is connected to a QSocketNotifier.
 * This provides a way to break out of the asynchronous context from which the
 * signal handler is called and back into the Qt event loop.
 */
void UnixSignalWatcherPrivate::watchForSignal(int signal)
{
    if (watchedSignals.contains(signal)) {

        return;
    }

    // Register a sigaction which will write to the socket pair
    struct sigaction sigact;
    sigact.sa_handler = UnixSignalWatcherPrivate::signalHandler;
    ::sigemptyset(&sigact.sa_mask);
    sigact.sa_flags |= SA_RESTART;
    if (::sigaction(signal, &sigact, NULL)) {

        return;
    }

    watchedSignals.append(signal);
}

/*!
 * Called when a Unix \a signal is received. Write to the socket to wake up the
 * QSocketNotifier.
 */
void UnixSignalWatcherPrivate::signalHandler(int signal)
{
    ssize_t nBytes = ::write(sockpair[0], &signal, sizeof(signal));
    Q_UNUSED(nBytes);
}

/*!
 * Called when the signal handler has written to the socket pair. Emits the Unix
 * signal as a Qt signal.
 */
void UnixSignalWatcherPrivate::_q_onNotify(int sockfd)
{
    Q_Q(UnixSignalWatcher);

    int signal;
    ssize_t nBytes = ::read(sockfd, &signal, sizeof(signal));
    Q_UNUSED(nBytes);

    emit q->unixSignal(signal);
}


/*!
 * Create a new UnixSignalWatcher as a child of the given \a parent.
 */
UnixSignalWatcher::UnixSignalWatcher(QObject *parent) :
    QObject(parent),
    d_ptr(new UnixSignalWatcherPrivate(this))
{
}

/*!
 * Destroy this UnixSignalWatcher.
 */
UnixSignalWatcher::~UnixSignalWatcher()
{
    delete d_ptr;
}

/*!
 * Register a signal handler for the given \a signal.
 *
 * After calling this method you can \c connect() to the unixSignal() Qt signal
 * to be notified when the Unix signal is received.
 */
void UnixSignalWatcher::watchForSignal(int signal)
{
    Q_D(UnixSignalWatcher);
    d->watchForSignal(signal);
}

/*!
 * \fn void UnixSignalWatcher::unixSignal(int signal)
 * Emitted when the given Unix \a signal is received.
 *
 * watchForSignal() must be called for each Unix signal that you want to receive
 * via the unixSignal() Qt signal. If a watcher is watching multiple signals,
 * unixSignal() will be emitted whenever *any* of the watched Unix signals are
 * received, and the \a signal argument can be inspected to find out which one
 * was actually received.
 */

#include "moc_sigwatch.cpp"