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authorpatacongo <patacongo@42af7a65-404d-4744-a932-0658087f49c3>2013-01-13 00:35:47 +0000
committerpatacongo <patacongo@42af7a65-404d-4744-a932-0658087f49c3>2013-01-13 00:35:47 +0000
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Cosmetic cleanup from SIGCHLD changes
git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/nuttx/code/trunk@5514 42af7a65-404d-4744-a932-0658087f49c3
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-rw-r--r--apps/examples/ostest/sighand.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/apps/examples/ostest/sighand.c b/apps/examples/ostest/sighand.c
index 63d9590d9..32b182c21 100644
--- a/apps/examples/ostest/sighand.c
+++ b/apps/examples/ostest/sighand.c
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ static bool threadexited = false;
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HAVE_PARENT
static void death_of_child(int signo, siginfo_t *info, void *ucontext)
{
- /* Use of printf in a signal handler is NOT safe! It can cause deadlocks! */
+ /* Use of printf in a signal handler is NOT safe! It can cause deadlocks!
+ * Also, signals are not queued by NuttX. As a consequence, some
+ * notifications will get lost (or the info data can be overwrittedn)!
+ * Because POSIX does not require signals to be queued, I do not think
+ * that this is a bug (the overwriting is a bug, however).
+ */
if (info)
{