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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-06-12 14:49:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-06-12 14:49:24 +0200 |
| commit | 8d4eb5f87ecfba2012cbab767c87df538306312c (patch) | |
| tree | 4be7250f64968e4ba372c97fdea374a96612c22d /man7 | |
| parent | 13a36929ad0c9cdab81e1f2bfeebdfe9024924e8 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-8d4eb5f87ecfba2012cbab767c87df538306312c.tar.gz | |
signal.7: Minor wording tweaks
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | man7/signal.7 | 7 |
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diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7 index bb38c75143..bc1e72ecb7 100644 --- a/man7/signal.7 +++ b/man7/signal.7 @@ -441,11 +441,8 @@ signals; see for further details. .SS "Async-signal-safe functions" .PP -A signal handling routine established by -.BR sigaction (2) -or -.BR signal (2) -must be very careful, since processing elsewhere may be interrupted +A signal handler function must be very careful, +since processing elsewhere may be interrupted at some arbitrary point in the execution of the program. POSIX has the concept of "safe function". If a signal interrupts the execution of an unsafe function, and |