pthreads, fork+exec, and deadlocks

[Aidan Van Dyk]

* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> [030910 15:41]:
> Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> 
> > The particular problem I'm seeing is with syslog_lock.
> 
> The standard doesn't guarantee that any functions but exec works after
> fork in a multi-threaded program.

Fair enough.  I hadn't found that.

Digging finds mention of "async-signal-safe functions" in the POSIX docs
on opengroup.org.

Is there a list of these functions for POSIX/glibc anywhere?

Thanks,
a.

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