Re: Possible bug: Race condition when calling external commands during trap handling

[Andreas Schwab]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

> And lastly I will comment that you are doing quite a bit inside of an
> interrupt routine.  Typically in a C program it is not safe to perform
> any operation that may call malloc() within an interupt service
> routine since malloc isn't reentrant.  Bash is a C program and I
> assume the same restriction would apply.

Traps are executed only at command boundaries.  Executing them in a
signal handler would make them completely unusable, of course.

Andreas.

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