Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:39:53 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys sigaction.2 Message-ID: <200107251439.f6PEdro07401@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:05:17 %2B1000." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107251900590.48176-100000@besplex.bde.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107251900590.48176-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107251900590.48176-100000@besplex.bde.org> Bruce Evans writes: : > Are these functions officially signal-safe, or just signal-safe in our : > particular implementation? : : Only in our implementation. It's hard to see how strcpy() could be : signal-unsafe, but POSIX doesn't require it to be signal-safe. Strcpy isn't atomic. So if the source string changes in a signal handler, unpredictable results will ensue. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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