Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Big Fun with Sys V signal handling
Message-ID: <1988Aug2.171400.17964@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <482@paisano.UUCP> <8264@brl-smoke.ARPA> <307@pcsbst.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 17:14:00 GMT

In article <307@pcsbst.UUCP> jh@pcsbst.UUCP (Johannes Heuft) writes:
>However I think one should tell also the reason for these rules. Is there
>any article one can refer to?

For starters, try the X3J11 draft C standard, soon to become the ANSI C
standard, which explicitly says that setting a flag -- subject to some
further conditions -- is the only thing a signal handler can safely do.
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