Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/19/23:53:50
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> >Of course, usually you shouldn't have a reason to install a handler
> >that is meant to catch real exceptions which don't originate from
> >something your program did.
> Sorry, I'm confused by the implications of this. What might cause such an
> event, and how would my program be able to tell which was the actual cause?
> It seems to me that such events could only be caused by a buggy DPMI host,
> which isn't my fault anyway.
Yes, that is exactly what I meant to say. So you are not confused.
In other words, for most practical purposes, a signal handler doesn't
have to be locked.
> I sincerely hope you aren't saying that signal handlers are not
> safe.
No, I wasn't saying that.
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