Big Fun with Sys V signal handling

[Henry Spencer]

In article <307 at pcsbst.UUCP> jh at 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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