Re: sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex

[Zan Lynx]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:37, Steve Beaty wrote:
> > 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...

In your test program, I just tried using sys_clone to fork the process
directly.  It works.  The problem really is inside glibc.  If glibc is
not POSIX compliant in this instance, I suppose you will have to file a
bug with them.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx>

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