C optimizer

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sat Feb 25 12:15:13 AEST 1989


In article <4276 at cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc at 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.



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