Re: sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex

[Steve Beaty]

> Your signal handler function is illegally calling non-reentrant functions.
> The *printf() family of functions are going to need to call malloc() to
> allocate buffers. malloc() cannot be re-entered.

	it deadlocks even with no calls in the client...  weird.

	thanks,

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