sunshowers.io
...Why bother with signal handling at all? When should you care about signals?Kubernetes on SIGTERM (source).You should care about signals if you’re developing a service. You’re likely going to be running under a service manager like Kubernetes, and the lifecycle generally involves signals.This screenshot shows...
Observations/Thoughts
2024-09-04
~22 min read
crates.io
Async signal handling async-signal Asynchronous signal handling. This crate provides the Signals type, which can be used to listen for POSIX signals asynchronously. It can be seen as an asynchronous version of signal_hook::iterator::Signals . Implementation On unix , this crate uses the signal_hook_registry crate to register...
Crate
v0.2.14
2026-04-07
docs.rs
An implementation of an asynchronous Unix signal handling backed futures.
Crate
v0.2.9
2020-02-05
docs.rs
...macOS.) The next best thing is waiting for the SIGCHLD signal, but Unix signal handling is complicated and error-prone. This crate implements SIGCHLD handling using signal_hook internally, for compatibility with other Rust signal handling libraries. It allows any number of threads to wait for SIGCHLD with an optional...
Crate
v0.2.5
2026-09-02
docs.rs
Unix signal handling signal-hook Library for safe and correct Unix signal handling in Rust. Unix signals are inherently hard to handle correctly, for several reasons: They are a global resource. If a library wants to set its own signal handlers, it risks disturbing some other library. It is possible...
Crate
v0.4.4
2026-04-04
vorner.github.io
vorner.github.io
Topics: Async Rust, signal handling, practical patterns
Why RustGrep includes it: arc-swap and signal-hook crates. Thoughtful deep dives.
Categories: async, crate-author
Blog
2026-07-27
~1 min read
docs.rs
...Global error handling. Xlib has a single global error hook. This is reminiscent of the Unix signal handling API, in that it makes it difficult to create well-modularized programs since they will fight with each-other over the error handlers. However, unlike the signal handling API, there is no...
Crate
v0.2.5
2026-04-20
docs.rs
...Signal handling caveat: If the process is killed abruptly (e.g. SIGINT via Ctrl+C, SIGKILL ), the Drop implementation may not run and the progress bar won't be cleared. Terminals like Ghostty mitigate this with a ~15-second auto-clear timeout, but for immediate cleanup, applications should install their...
Crate
v4.2.0
2026-03-04
doc.rust-lang.org
fn exec(&mut self) -> io::Error
...For example the working directory, environment variables, signal handling settings, various user/group information, or aspects of stdio file descriptors may have changed. If a "transactional spawn" is required to gracefully handle errors it is recommended to use the cross-platform spawn instead.
method
std
Stable since 1.9.0
Version 1.100.0-nightly
redox-os.org
...This week @jackpot51 simplified signal handling by adding an atomic bitmask of pending signals and removing the extra signal handling thread. Work by @mmstick on the mdBook based user manual continues, @huntergoldstein added support to allow builtins to be executed as part of pipelines, and made the RawFDs now managed...
News & Blog Posts
2017-08-01
~9 min read
redox-os.org
...Details here.
@jackpot51 Added the initial implementation of signal handling. Details here.
@jackpot51 Allowed simple signal delivery to PID 1 (the kernel idle process). Details here.
Ion
Ion is a shell for UNIX platforms, and is the default shell in Redox. It is still a work in progress, but much...
News & Blog Posts
2017-07-18
~6 min read
blog.adamchalmers.com
...Signal handling
The Tokio docs have a great example of signal handling, but let's look at a fuller example of a server that listens for a signal. When you start your server, also start an async task (or goroutine, or thread) which listens for that signal, and when the...
Observations/Thoughts
2023-11-22
~6 min read
www.redox-os.org
...Not to mention his extensive work on the NLnet-funded Signals and Process Lifecycle project,
including moving signal handling into Relibc.
And thank you to all our other Relibc contributors, who have implemented many libc functions,
tremendously helping our effort to port Linux/BSD software.
Special thanks to Darley Barreto...
Project/Tooling Updates
2024-09-11
~15 min read
github.com
...For example the working directory, environment variables, signal
/// handling settings, various user/group information, or aspects of stdio
/// file descriptors may have changed. If a "transactional spawn" is required to
/// gracefully handle errors it is recommended to use the cross-platform `spawn`
/// instead.
fn exec(&mut self) -> io::Error;
/// Schedules...
RFC 1359
RFC
2015-11-09
~4 min read
asterinas.github.io
...Refactor floating-point context management in context switching and signal handling
Use iret instead of sysret if the context is not clean
Don’t treat APIC IDs as CPU IDs
Fix some CPUID problems and add support for AMD CPUs
RISC-V:
Add RISC-V timer support
Parse device tree...
Project/Tooling Updates
2025-08-20
~3 min read
rustgrep.dev
...Next-gen trait solver.Core TeamCompiler100Async Rust, signal handling, practical patternsarc-swap and signal-hook crates. Thoughtful deep dives.AsyncCrate Authors101Benchmarking, GPGPU, performanceCriterion.rs origin. De facto Rust benchmarking library.PerformanceCrate Authors102Rune language, musli serialization, Rust librariesRune programming language and musli serialization framework.Crate AuthorsCompiler103Rust tutorials, language features, procedural macrosWell...
Project/Tooling Updates
2026-04-01
~6 min read
tokio.rs
...Since then, it has grown to include a multi-threaded work-stealing
scheduler, APIs for timers, TCP, UDP, UDS, file system access, signal handling,
managing child processes, high performance async aware channels, and more. All
this thanks to a dedicated team of maintainers and an active community
of contributors. Tokio...
News & Blog Posts
2019-08-13
~4 min read
rust-osdev.com
...signal handling and IO
Jeremy Soller on OS Development, Legacy Code, Redox OS and the Future of Memory-Safe Languages (Podcast Interview)
Developing a cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust
Infrastructure and Tooling
In this section, we collect recent updates to rustc, cargo, and other tooling that are...
Newsletters
2024-08-14
~4 min read
docs.rs
...See Nats docs signal Since 0.5 Adds shutdown_on_signal and shutdown_on_ctrl_c to the scheduler. Both shut the system down (stop the scheduler and remove all the tasks) when a signal is received. As this leverages the signal handling from Tokio, this is only available on...
Crate
v0.15.1
2025-10-28