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From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
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In-Reply-To: <19970919183553.28276@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 19, 97 06:35:53 pm
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> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 09:36:03AM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> >>   On the other hand, there's not much you can do without calling some
> >>   library routine.  POSIX.1 defines "safe" routines that you can call
> >>   from a signal handler.  They are:
> >
> > (Commercial plug) This is why every UNIX programmer should have a copy of
> > W Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. A great
> > book, which covers these sorts of issues better than any other I've seen.
> > In fact WRS book's generally are great...
> 
> Agreed.  I've got all of them, and I use them.  But I was really
> trying to plug the book from which this came :-)

Which is?

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