Re: sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex

[Andreas Schwab]

Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I am not sure it is really a problem though.  I don't think you should
> be allowed to fork inside a signal handler.  That seems very wrong.

fork is marked async-signal-safe, provided that all atfork handlers are
async-signal-safe.

Andreas.

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