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On Tuesday 13 July 2004 15:25, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> Well, the patch works perfectly here so far. I'm only concerned about
> possible race conditions. A signal can interrupt at any place, even
> inside a C instructions. And with that in mind, using a simple lock
> variable like we do with the signals driver isn't 100% safe. (We would
> need to disable signals, use some special software-mutex-construct, or
> rely on asm support, to be on the safe side.)
Indeed it isn't. The demo program crashes for me with Xlib complaining
about an asynchronous call or somesuch...
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