bug#15794: Core dump after SIGTERM during GC marking

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
>> Cc: 15794@debbugs.gnu.org,  gundaetiapo@gmail.com
>> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:22:31 +0100
>> 
>> >> Even auto-save is a no-no in a signal handler.
>> >
>> > I don't see why.  Auto-save takes care to do only predictable things.
>> 
>> A lot of things that are a no-no in a signal handler, like calling
>> auto-save-hook.
>
> We could disable that (and the other things) as well.

You would have to disable opening files, too.

Andreas.

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