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

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On 8/22/23 17:26, Tomáš Golembiovský via Libc-alpha wrote:
Hi,

gentle reminder that this has not received any attention yet.
I assume this is because there are currently efforts to make glibc's implementation async-signal-safe - which would make this proposed note quite quickly inaccurate (though the fact it has been async-signal-unsafe until now still seems notable enough to be mentioned here).

Thanks,

     Tomas

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 01:55:27PM +0200, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
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),
--
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