Dbus calls interlock issue

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sun Feb 15 01:00:57 PST 2009


Kaustubh Atrawalkar wrote:
>In signal handler, i will create a pthread with a
>function and parameter as pid and the sig_handler returns.

No, that's not guaranteed to work.

Quoting Simon's email of Friday (which you apparently ignored):
>On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 at 17:50:32 +0530, Kaustubh Atrawalkar wrote:
>> I have a server running with SIGCHILD handler. In sig_child handler i
>> am...
>
>Let me just stop you there...
>
>The vast majority of functions cannot safely be called from a signal(2)
>handler.
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=signal%20handler%20safe%20functions>

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