Re: Realloc is blocking execution

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> 4. The main process WM receives SIGHUP, and enters a signal handler.
>    The signal handler uses two calls: free_menuitems(), get_menuitems().

Since when are you allowed to malloc, let alone realoc, from inside a signal
handler?

http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Nonreentrancy.html#Nonreentrancy

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