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- In article <DLCosx.Hn1@falcon.daytonoh.attgis.com> Dick Menninger
- <Dick.Menninger@daytonoh.attgis.com> writes:
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- > > ==========Steve Clamage, 1/16/96==========
- > > In C, a signal handler isn't allowed to do much of anything, precisely
- > > because the program state can't be known and may be inconsistent. The
- > > same is true in C++.
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- > It is just like an interrupt handler in that it could
- > deadlock with the code it preempts. OSes deal with
- > that and do quite meaty stuff in the interrupt handlers.
- > I certainly hope you are NOT trying to preclude the
- > use of exceptions in interrupt handlers. That would
- > be totally absurd.
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