Bugtraq: Re: signal handling

[abelits () phobos illtel denver co us (Alex Belits)]

On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> > Proper behaviour would be to have the sighandlers set volatile variables
> > and checking these in appropriate places in the normal flow of control,
> Actually, I seem to recall that this is the _only_ behaviour that is
> allowed in signal handlers according to the ANSI C (or maybe POSIX)
> standards - anything else is implementation defined.
On all systems there is a set of system calls allowed from the signal
handler. I'm not sure, which standard it is, but, say write() is allowed.

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Alex