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From: | Andreas Schwab |
Subject: | Re: Possible bug: Race condition when calling external commands during trap handling |
Date: | Thu, 03 May 2012 10:06:09 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.96 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes: > And lastly I will comment that you are doing quite a bit inside of an > interrupt routine. Typically in a C program it is not safe to perform > any operation that may call malloc() within an interupt service > routine since malloc isn't reentrant. Bash is a C program and I > assume the same restriction would apply. Traps are executed only at command boundaries. Executing them in a signal handler would make them completely unusable, of course. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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