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From Douglas McNaught
Subject Re: Bug in signal handler
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In response to Re: Bug in signal handler [Was: [TODO] Allow commenting  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:

> Running unsafe functions within a signal handler is not unsafe per-se.
> It's only unsafe if the main program could also be running unsafe
> functions.

I don't disagree with your reasoning, but does POSIX actually say
this?

-Doug

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