Adds notes on program termination and signal handlers.

I revised the text after dd's kind review. So, if you find
any error, it is probably introduced by my last minutes'
update and is entirely my fault, not dd's.

Reviewed by: dd
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yokota 2001-07-26 08:46:47 +00:00
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@ -408,6 +408,54 @@ blank the display if the argment
.Va blank
!= 0. This can be done to shut off the screen during display updates that
the user should first see when it's done.
.Ss Program termination and signal processing
It is important to call
.Fn VGLEnd
before terminating the program.
Care must be taken if you install signal handlers and try to call
.Fn VGLEnd
and
.Xr exit 3
to end the program.
If a signal is caught while the program is inside
.Nm libvgl
functions,
.Fn VGLEnd
may not be able to properly restore the graphics hardware.
.Pp
The recommended way to handle signals and program termination is to
have a flag to indicate singnal's delivery.
Your singnal handlers set this flag but do not terminate
the program immediately.
The main part of the program checks the flag to see if it is
supporsed to terminate, and call
.Fn VGLEnd
and
.Xr exit 3
if the flag is set.
.Pp
Note that
.Fn VGLInit
installs its internal signal handlers for
.Dv SIGINT , SIGTERM , SIGSEGV ,
and
.Dv SIGBUS ,
and terminates the program at appropriate time,
after one of these signals is caught.
If you want to have your own signal handlers for these signals,
install handers
.Em after
.Fn VGLInit .
.Pp
.Dv SIGUSR1
and
.Dv SIGUSR2
are internally used by
.Nm libvgl
to control screen switching and the mouse pointer,
and are not available to
.Nm libvgl
client programs.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An S\(/oren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org
.Sh HISTORY