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| author | Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org> | 2023-04-28 11:00:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org> | 2023-04-28 11:00:33 +0100 |
| commit | 3b9fc716449302c7805b34cae0dde9a88fd99e57 (patch) | |
| tree | 67999815f240be5581be4a80dcde2655cfb5aaee | |
| parent | e7398198c5d559c1d88b48b7a02e1320919534a7 (diff) | |
| download | glib-3b9fc716449302c7805b34cae0dde9a88fd99e57.tar.gz | |
docs: Mention that calls after fork() must be async-signal-safe
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2958
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/reference/glib/programming.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/programming.xml b/docs/reference/glib/programming.xml index 52df907e8..e4cda4cec 100644 --- a/docs/reference/glib/programming.xml +++ b/docs/reference/glib/programming.xml @@ -35,8 +35,15 @@ will always have at least 2 threads. </para> <para> +In particular, this means that programs must only use +<ulink url="man:signal-safety(7)">async-signal-safe functions</ulink> between +calling <function>fork()</function> and <function>exec()</function>, even if +they haven’t explicitly spawned another thread yet. +</para> + +<para> See the sections on <link linkend="glib-Threads">threads</link> and -<link linkend="glib-Thread-Pools">threadpools</link> for GLib APIs that +<link linkend="glib-Thread-Pools">thread pools</link> for GLib APIs that support multithreaded applications. </para> |