Re: Should we clear current->blocked on exec?

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 20:58:25 EST

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Tim Hockin wrote:
> Yes, I probably shouldn't exec() from a signal handler,

According to Fred Zlotnick's "The POSIX.1 Standard" (appendix E), it's
okay to call execle and execve from a signal handler.

- Werner

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