Re: snprintf(3) and friends async-signal safety?

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:12:22 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger 
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> > Question is: is it really safe to use it in a signal handler inside
> > NetBSD?
>
> No. It can use mutexes for printing floating point, just to name one
> important issue.

I am more concerned with the rest.

FP handling is a corner case :) I don't expect to see many signal 
handlers with FP code.

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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