is dl_iterate_phdr() supposed to be async-signal safe?
David Mosberger
davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Fri Apr 2 00:09:00 GMT 2004
>>>>> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:22:03 -0800, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> said:
Roland> Why would you have thought that it was? It is
Roland> well-specified that no interface is async-signal-safe unless
Roland> explicitly listed as such. No such claim was ever made
Roland> about dl_iterate_phdr.
Because otherwise there is no way to unwind from a signal handler and
I was mislead by the fact that it was using a recursive lock (and it
was only indirectly calling pthread_mutex_lock(), which is defined not
to be async-signal safe).
Can this please be fixed? Wouldn't it be sufficient to disable signal
delivery during lock acquisition/release and while modifying the ELF
object list?
--david
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