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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1997: signal handling

signal handling

Peter Jeremy (jeremypgsms01.alcatel.com.au)
Tue, 7 Jan 1997 08:10:09 +1100 

On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:43:10 +0100, Bjorn Wesen <bjornsparta.lu.se> wrote:
>Proper behaviour would be to have the sighandlers set volatile variables
>and checking these in appropriate places in the normal flow of control,
Actually, I seem to recall that this is the _only_ behaviour that is
allowed in signal handlers according to the ANSI C (or maybe POSIX)
standards - anything else is implementation defined.

Peter