On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:24:02AM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
>
> > Running unsafe functions within a signal handler is not unsafe per-se.
> > It's only unsafe if the main program could also be running unsafe
> > functions.
>
> I don't disagree with your reasoning, but does POSIX actually say
> this?
On my machine, signal(2) has the following:
The routine handler must be very careful, since processing elsewhere was interrupted at some arbitrary
point.POSIX has the concept of "safe function". If a signal interrupts an unsafe function, and handler calls
anunsafe function, then the behavior is undefined. Safe functions are listed explicitly in the various
standards. The POSIX 1003.1-2003 list is
<long list including select(), signal() and sigaction()>
I havn't read POSIX myself though...
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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