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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C optimizer
Keywords: C pure function optimization
Message-ID: <9705@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 25 Feb 89 02:15:13 GMT
References: <515@larry.UUCP> <9648@smoke.BRL.MIL> <36034@bbn.COM> <3121@ficc.uu.net> <1028@frog.UUCP> <4276@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4276@cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
-How about if the left hand getpid() is called, and before the right hand
-getpid() is called a signal comes in, causing a signal handler to be called,
-then the signal handler does a fork.  Then, the interrupt handler returns
-and the right hand getpid() is called.  Voila!

Anyone who fork()s then returns inside a signal handler deserves to suffer.