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Diffstat (limited to 'apps/examples/ostest/sighand.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | apps/examples/ostest/sighand.c | 7 |
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) { |