Kip Matthew Macy wrote:
>
> Read the man page again:
>
> <snip>
>
> ASYNC-SIGNAL SAFETY
> The mutex functions are not async-signal safe. What this
> means is that they should not be called from a signal han
> dler. In particular, calling pthread_mutex_lock or
> pthread_mutex_unlock from a signal handler may deadlock
> the calling thread.
>
> </snip>
<snip>
Gosh, is this common or just a Linux'ism? Seems like a real drag and
not to easy to get around.
George
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