From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5408 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2008 22:30:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 27904 invoked by uid 48); 18 Nov 2008 22:28:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20081118222846.27903.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "tom dot honermann at oracle dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20070704013541.4737.nmiell@comcast.net> References: <20070704013541.4737.nmiell@comcast.net> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug libc/4737] fork is not async-signal-safe X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 ------- Additional Comments From tom dot honermann at oracle dot com 2008-11-18 22:28 ------- Another possible solution for this problem would be to just not call atfork registered handlers at all if fork is called from within the context of a signal handler. This exact solution was implemented for Solaris 10. See http://src.opensolaris.org/source/diff/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libc/port/threads/scalls.c?r1=/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libc/port/threads/scalls.c@6933&r2=/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libc/port/threads/scalls.c@7901&format=s&full=0 -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4737 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.