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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-11-05 10:38:54 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-11-05 10:38:54 +0100
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signal-safety.7: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ must make async-signal-safe.
(An implementation may provide safe implementations of additional functions,
but this is not required by the standard and other implementations
may not provide the same guarantees.)
+.PP
In general, a function is async-signal-safe either because it is reentrant
or because it is atomic with respect to signals
(i.e., its execution can't be interrupted by a signal handler).