I agree that the POSIX standard is quite restrictive in this respect. However I believe that is for a good reason. Performing non-atomic memory operations on static objects in a signal handler can cause problems with reentrancy. This can lead to undefined behaviour for example in the case of nested signal handler calls that update the same static object.
> Am 08.08.2018 um 06:56 schrieb Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>: > > On 08/07/2018 03:50 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: >> I find posix too restrictive in this respect. > > Yes, me too. > > The file name length limit has been in gzip since forever, and is a > separate issue (e.g. it happens regardless of signals). So if it is to > be fixed it should be a separate bug number. >
