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authorjilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org>2013-05-31 21:25:51 +0000
committerjilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org>2013-05-31 21:25:51 +0000
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sigaction(2): Extend description of async-signal safe functions:
* Improve description when unsafe functions are unsafe. * Add various safe functions from POSIX.1-2008 and Austin Group issue #692.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2121
1 files changed, 108 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 b/lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
index e161bf2..e47098d 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" From: @(#)sigaction.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/3/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 27, 2012
+.Dd May 31, 2013
.Dt SIGACTION 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -346,13 +346,19 @@ Any attempt to do so will be silently ignored.
The following functions are either reentrant or not interruptible
by signals and are async-signal safe.
Therefore applications may
-invoke them, without restriction, from signal-catching functions:
+invoke them, without restriction, from signal-catching functions
+or from a child process after calling
+.Xr fork 2
+in a multi-threaded process:
.Pp
Base Interfaces:
.Pp
+.Fn _Exit ,
.Fn _exit ,
+.Fn accept ,
.Fn access ,
.Fn alarm ,
+.Fn bind ,
.Fn cfgetispeed ,
.Fn cfgetospeed ,
.Fn cfsetispeed ,
@@ -361,41 +367,65 @@ Base Interfaces:
.Fn chmod ,
.Fn chown ,
.Fn close ,
+.Fn connect ,
.Fn creat ,
.Fn dup ,
.Fn dup2 ,
+.Fn execl ,
.Fn execle ,
+.Fn execv ,
.Fn execve ,
+.Fn fchdir ,
+.Fn fchmod ,
+.Fn fchown ,
.Fn fcntl ,
.Fn fork ,
-.Fn fpathconf ,
.Fn fstat ,
.Fn fsync ,
+.Fn ftruncate ,
.Fn getegid ,
.Fn geteuid ,
.Fn getgid ,
.Fn getgroups ,
+.Fn getpeername ,
.Fn getpgrp ,
.Fn getpid ,
.Fn getppid ,
+.Fn getsockname ,
+.Fn getsockopt ,
.Fn getuid ,
.Fn kill ,
.Fn link ,
+.Fn listen ,
.Fn lseek ,
+.Fn lstat ,
.Fn mkdir ,
.Fn mkfifo ,
+.Fn mknod ,
.Fn open ,
-.Fn pathconf ,
.Fn pause ,
.Fn pipe ,
+.Fn poll ,
+.Fn pselect ,
+.Fn pthread_sigmask ,
.Fn raise ,
.Fn read ,
+.Fn readlink ,
+.Fn recv ,
+.Fn recvfrom ,
+.Fn recvmsg ,
.Fn rename ,
.Fn rmdir ,
+.Fn select ,
+.Fn send ,
+.Fn sendmsg ,
+.Fn sendto ,
.Fn setgid ,
.Fn setpgid ,
.Fn setsid ,
+.Fn setsockopt ,
.Fn setuid ,
+.Fn shutdown ,
.Fn sigaction ,
.Fn sigaddset ,
.Fn sigdelset ,
@@ -407,8 +437,11 @@ Base Interfaces:
.Fn sigprocmask ,
.Fn sigsuspend ,
.Fn sleep ,
+.Fn sockatmark ,
+.Fn socket ,
+.Fn socketpair ,
.Fn stat ,
-.Fn sysconf ,
+.Fn symlink ,
.Fn tcdrain ,
.Fn tcflow ,
.Fn tcflush ,
@@ -427,11 +460,16 @@ Base Interfaces:
.Fn waitpid ,
.Fn write .
.Pp
+X/Open Systems Interfaces:
+.Pp
+.Fn sigpause ,
+.Fn sigset ,
+.Fn utimes .
+.Pp
Realtime Interfaces:
.Pp
.Fn aio_error ,
.Fn clock_gettime ,
-.Fn sigpause ,
.Fn timer_getoverrun ,
.Fn aio_return ,
.Fn fdatasync ,
@@ -439,27 +477,84 @@ Realtime Interfaces:
.Fn timer_gettime ,
.Fn aio_suspend ,
.Fn sem_post ,
-.Fn sigset ,
.Fn timer_settime .
.Pp
-.Tn ANSI C
-Interfaces:
+Base Interfaces not specified as async-signal safe by
+.Tn POSIX :
.Pp
-.Fn strcpy ,
+.Fn fpathconf ,
+.Fn pathconf ,
+.Fn sysconf .
+.Pp
+Base Interfaces not specified as async-signal safe by
+.Tn POSIX ,
+but planned to be:
+.Pp
+.Fn ffs ,
+.Fn htonl ,
+.Fn htons ,
+.Fn memccpy ,
+.Fn memchr ,
+.Fn memcmp ,
+.Fn memcpy ,
+.Fn memmove ,
+.Fn memset ,
+.Fn ntohl ,
+.Fn ntohs ,
+.Fn stpcpy ,
+.Fn stpncpy ,
.Fn strcat ,
-.Fn strncpy ,
+.Fn strchr ,
+.Fn strcmp ,
+.Fn strcpy ,
+.Fn strcspn ,
+.Fn strlen ,
.Fn strncat ,
-and perhaps some others.
+.Fn strncmp ,
+.Fn strncpy ,
+.Fn strnlen ,
+.Fn strpbrk ,
+.Fn strrchr ,
+.Fn strspn ,
+.Fn strstr ,
+.Fn strtok_r ,
+.Fn wcpcpy ,
+.Fn wcpncpy ,
+.Fn wcscat ,
+.Fn wcschr ,
+.Fn wcscmp ,
+.Fn wcscpy ,
+.Fn wcscspn ,
+.Fn wcslen ,
+.Fn wcsncat ,
+.Fn wcsncmp ,
+.Fn wcsncpy ,
+.Fn wcsnlen ,
+.Fn wcspbrk ,
+.Fn wcsrchr ,
+.Fn wcsspn ,
+.Fn wcsstr ,
+.Fn wcstok ,
+.Fn wmemchr ,
+.Fn wmemcmp ,
+.Fn wmemcpy ,
+.Fn wmemmove ,
+.Fn wmemset .
.Pp
Extension Interfaces:
.Pp
.Fn strlcpy ,
.Fn strlcat .
.Pp
+In addition, reading or writing
+.Va errno
+is async-signal safe.
+.Pp
All functions not in the above lists are considered to be unsafe
with respect to signals.
That is to say, the behaviour of such
-functions when called from a signal handler is undefined.
+functions is undefined when they are called from a signal handler
+that interrupted an unsafe function.
In general though, signal handlers should do little more than set a
flag; most other actions are not safe.
.Pp
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