Re: [PATCH] bug fix for bearerbox signal handling

Hi List,

FYI: just commited to cvs.


On Monday 13 October 2003 00:00, Alexander Malysh wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> attached patch corrects signal handling routine for bearerbox. We may not
>  call mutex_[lock|unlock] or any not asynchron signal safe functions within
> a signal handler. Here is a quote from 'man pthread_mutex_lock':
>
> ASYNC-SIGNAL SAFETY
>        The  mutex functions are not async-signal safe. What this means is
> 	that they should not be called from a signal handler. In particular,
> 	calling pthread_mutex_lock or pthread_mutex_unlock from a signal  handler
>        may deadlock the calling thread.
>
> Generally for signal handler apply: make as little as possible within
> signal handler function.
>
> Comments and votes are very welcome...
>

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