[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v2] crec: Add primitive exception handling

[Charles Keepax]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:18:28PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:22:56PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > You can't safely do most of this such as calling fclose() from within a
> > signal handler, the set of functions that are guaranteed safe is quite
> > limited - see signal(7).
> 
> I should also have mentioned that it looks like you're probably looking
> for setvbuf() with _IONBF.

All good points, it is probably worth just merging the first
patch in the series for now and I can have a more detailed look
at the second patch.

Tricky thing is making 100% sure we don't enter a poll
after we have received the signal, especially if we are just
using the standard pattern of communicating the signal using a
sig_atomic_t.

Thanks,
Charles