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Re: signals and _REENT

From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
To: newlib at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:30:49 +0100
Subject: Re: signals and _REENT
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On Feb 21 22:44, Freddie Chopin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> While browsing newlib's source I noticed that signal-related functions in
> newlib (like signal() or raise()) use _REENT, which is per-thread. Shouldn't
> these functions use _GLOBAL_REENT, which I assume is per-process?

Hmm.  Hard to tell.  I'm not sure about the original intention of
this code.  I *think* you're right, though.  Jeff?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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