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From: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
To: Steve Beaty <beaty@emess.mscd.edu>
Cc: chris@scary.beasts.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:22:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083882160.8704.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405062137.i46LbnjF017523@emess.mscd.edu>

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On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:37, Steve Beaty wrote:
> > I am not sure it is really a problem though.  I don't think you should
> > be allowed to fork inside a signal handler.  That seems very wrong.
> 
> 	i can't disagree :-)  but fork() is supposed to be reentrant...

In your test program, I just tried using sys_clone to fork the process
directly.  It works.  The problem really is inside glibc.  If glibc is
not POSIX compliant in this instance, I suppose you will have to file a
bug with them.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-06 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-04 20:15 sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex Steve Beaty
2004-05-04 22:30 ` chris
2004-05-04 22:56   ` Zan Lynx
2004-05-04 23:16     ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-06 21:37     ` Steve Beaty
2004-05-06 22:22       ` Zan Lynx [this message]
2004-05-06 21:36   ` Steve Beaty
2004-05-04 23:37 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-06 21:41   ` Steve Beaty
2004-05-05  0:38 ` Edgar Toernig
2004-05-06 21:47   ` Steve Beaty
     [not found] <1SeIE-Dy-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1ShG9-2Yt-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-04 23:57   ` Pascal Schmidt

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