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



On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:33:16 +0000, Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
Well you could hangle Unix signals synchronously by using a thread
which waits for signals with sigwait(). Usually you block certain
signals in main thread, then one (signal catching) thread calls
sigwait() waiting for a signal. When the signal arrives, signal
catching thread stops/restarts other threads, depending on what the
signal was meant to do.

I could also play with a volatile sig_atomic_t, set it to 1 in handler and clear it in the dd(1) write loop.

I am not sure that turning dd(1) in a MT binary is the right approach :)

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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