From: Steve Beaty <beaty@emess.mscd.edu>
To: zlynx@acm.org (Zan Lynx)
Cc: chris@scary.beasts.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List)
Subject: Re: sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:37:49 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405062137.i46LbnjF017523@emess.mscd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1083711395.29189.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> from "Zan Lynx" at May 04, 2004 04:56:36 PM
> I am not sure it is really a problem though. I don't think you should
> be allowed to fork inside a signal handler. That seems very wrong.
i can't disagree :-) but fork() is supposed to be reentrant...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-04 20:15 Steve Beaty
2004-05-04 22:30 ` chris
2004-05-04 22:56 ` Zan Lynx
2004-05-04 23:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-06 21:37 ` Steve Beaty [this message]
2004-05-06 22:22 ` Zan Lynx
2004-05-06 21:36 ` Steve Beaty
2004-05-04 23:37 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-06 21:41 ` Steve Beaty
2004-05-05 0:38 ` Edgar Toernig
2004-05-06 21:47 ` Steve Beaty
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[not found] ` <1ShG9-2Yt-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-04 23:57 ` Pascal Schmidt
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