signals and _REENT

[Freddie Chopin]

On 02/26/2015 10:41 PM, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Actually I did miss something.  Since we are using the global list,
> we have to thread protect it with locking and unlocking.  The normal way would be
> to add two new locks: __sigfunc_lock_acquire() and __sigfunc_lock_release() which
> are needed if not single threaded.  This will cause some breakage for builds that
> use threads until they define these locks.  Perhaps a single global reent lock might
> be helpful.

In that case maybe it would be a good idea to "reuse" the lock that is 
used with _GLOBAL_REENT in stdio? Or do you think separate lock for 
signals and separate lock for stdio would be a better option (smaller 
chance of congestion)?

Regards,
FCh