Re: sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex

[Steve Beaty]

> 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.

	i can't disagree :-)  but fork() is supposed to be reentrant...

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