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Re: signals and _REENT


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


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