[PATCH] abort.3: Note that the glibc implementation is not async-signal-safe

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See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26275

Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Glibc <libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man3/abort.3         | 6 ++++++
 man7/signal-safety.7 | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man3/abort.3 b/man3/abort.3
index 0b57e10ed..827d5c9db 100644
--- a/man3/abort.3
+++ b/man3/abort.3
@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ terminates the process without flushing streams.
 POSIX.1 permits either possible behavior, saying that
 .BR abort ()
 "may include an attempt to effect fclose() on all open streams".
+.SH BUGS
+The glibc implementation of
+.BR abort ()
+is not async-signal-safe,
+.\" FIXME . https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26275
+in violation of the requirements of POSIX.1.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR gdb (1),
 .BR sigaction (2),
diff --git a/man7/signal-safety.7 b/man7/signal-safety.7
index 3d6ddc7eb..431a22f89 100644
--- a/man7/signal-safety.7
+++ b/man7/signal-safety.7
@@ -335,6 +335,11 @@ The glibc implementation of
 is not async-signal-safe because it uses
 .BR pthread_mutex_lock (3)
 internally.
+.IP \[bu]
+.\" FIXME . https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26275
+The glibc implementation of
+.BR abort (3)
+is not async-signal-safe.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR sigaction (2),
 .BR signal (7),
-- 
2.41.0




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