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Some Nix wrappers are not signal-safe

Open SteveLauC opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments
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For those syscalls that are signal-safe, their Nix wrappers may not be.

For example, stat(2) is signal-safe, its Nix wrapper uses the NixPath trait, which will allocate if the passed argument has a length greater than MAX_STACK_ALLOCATION, and allocation is not signal-safe, making the wrapper signal-unsafe.

I kinda think we should take a look at those functions that are asked to be signal-safe by the standard, and check if the corresponding Nix wrappers are safe or not, if not, then we should document it so that our users can be aware.

SteveLauC avatar Jun 05 '24 06:06 SteveLauC