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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Safe accesses of global arrays in signal handlers?
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:15:55 +0200
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> Doing anything substantial in a signal handler is problematic.

Do you see difficulties from read/write accesses on global/shared arrays there?
Are atomic adjustments eventually needed for such a data type?
Is the handling of atomicity relevant here?

Regards,
Markus