Timestamp:
Apr 27, 2010, 5:21:31 PM (14 years ago)
Author:
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Branches:
master, release-1.10, release-1.7, release-1.8, release-1.9
Children:
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Parents:
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git-author:
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> (04/27/10 16:31:56)
git-committer:
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> (04/27/10 17:21:31)
Message:
Mark variables modified from signal handlers as volatile sig_atomic_t.

According to POSIX, this is the only type of variable (other than
errno) that may be accessed from a signal handler with defined
results.  In practice, at least the volatile is important to prevent
the compiler from reordering accesses.

err_signal_info is a bigger struct that cannot be assigned atomically,
but it’s only for debugging so we just do the best we can.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
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