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Re: patch adding a pidfile-option to script(1)



I wrote

> There is no promise that stdio is signal-unsafe only when the signal
> interrupts a stdio call, though that is the way most implementations
> happen to work.

Actually, this is true for only a restricted subset of stdio calls.
Some stdio calls can malloc(), and malloc-family calls are not
signal-safe in general (though NetBSD's jemalloc is surprisingly
signal-robust, at least in 9.1).

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