Re: RFC: sigaction module

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 6/16/2008 5:01 PM:
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|> +          /* This opens a slight window where an async signal can call
|> +             wrong handler.  Oh well.  */
|> +          oact->sa_handler = signal (sig, SIG_DFL);
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| Isn't it easy to close this window when oact and act are both nonnull?
| In that case, you can invoke 'signal' once, without opening this
| particular race condition.

True enough; but generally sigaction is often used with NULL act and
non-NULL oact to query the current settings before doing anything else, so
it won't benefit existing gnulib clients.

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| More generally, can't you use sigprocmask to avoid this class of race
| conditions within sigaction?  (I don't know the platform.)

mingw lacks sigprocmask.  There is a gnulib module replacement, but it too
suffers from the race condition.  In general, I know of no way to make
mingw immune to poorly timed signals.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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