[LAD] Session Handlers and 'level 1' support

Gabriel M. Beddingfield gabrbedd at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 14:06:20 UTC 2010



On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Chris Cannam wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Nedko Arnaudov <nedko at arnaudov.name> wrote:
>> "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <gabrbedd at gmail.com> writes:
>>>     "The application, after receiving the signal, should
>>>     save as soon as possible.  However, the saving does
>>>     not have to happen in the signal-handler function
>
> This is far too weak -- it _cannot_ safely be done from a signal handler.

Why not?

-gabriel


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