malloc() problem solved(?)

John Temples john at jwt.UUCP
Thu Apr 11 12:53:07 AEST 1991


In article <70183 at eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> jones at acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) writes:
>	Or put another way, make sure that your interrupt level code never
>calls routines that are not re-entrant

Is it documented anywhere which system calls are reentrant?  I seem to
recall a thread in another newsgroup about what you can safely to do in
a signal handler, and some people were saying "nothing other than
modifying a global flag and calling signal() to reset the handler."
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John W. Temples -- john at jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)



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