Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> To be sure, are you referring to races where a signal >> can be received while in the signal handler on some systems? >> >> Also there is the issue of restarting system calls >> after the signal handler has run. >> >> Also there is the issue of resetting the signal >> handler after it has run. >> >> Are there systems that coreutils supports currently >> that doesn't follow BSD/linux semantics wrt the above 3 points? > > afaik, Linux behaves as POSIX dictates. that means it does not behave as you > describe above. newer versions of glibc may block the same signal from > re-occuring, but it doesnt block other signals.
True, but the current timeout implementation can handle that. Anyway I'll get rid of the ambiguity using sigaction as you suggest. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
