[17008] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: RFC: libverto nearing release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dmitri Pal)
Thu Jul 7 17:48:16 2011
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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:24:52 -0400
From: Dmitri Pal <dpal@redhat.com>
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On 07/07/2011 11:43 AM, Nico Williams wrote:
>> c) this *might* work, but it assumes that the handlers are in a sane
>> > state, an assumption I'm not willing to make.
> Why not? It's just something modules must do. To be portable signal
> handlers must only have global state, so you make sure that the
> associated global state is sane at all times. Hardly problematic.
>
You can never be sure about those who "must" do something "would"
actually do what they "must".
Adding safeguards is a prudent approach.
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal
Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.
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