Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Markus Elfring Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Open issues in the specification for fork()? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:56:53 +0100 Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <20131123221330.3816a0ce@laptop.homenet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Dz5YLELiu660/LRklIAuSwQr6qlYeUOaXet9KiAp7lXVvanduc Cancel-Lock: sha1:C9rvXE+n0M9Tdo8q1LkFssZ/tjc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 In-Reply-To: <20131123221330.3816a0ce@laptop.homenet> Xref: csiph.com comp.programming.threads:2004 comp.unix.programmer:5019 > This is irrelevant to single threaded programs. They can call whatever > they like after a fork(). Unless the processing context will be switched to the implementation of a signal handler. (Asynchronous-signal-safety should be considered in an other situation then, shouldn't it?) ;-) Regards, Markus