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diff --git a/doc/ref/neon.xml b/doc/ref/neon.xml index 0c2a626..49bbc40 100644 --- a/doc/ref/neon.xml +++ b/doc/ref/neon.xml @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ otherwise handled to avoid process termination when writing to a socket which has been shutdown by the peer.</simpara></listitem> - <listitem><simpara>OpenSSL and GnuTLSrequire global + <listitem><simpara>OpenSSL and GnuTLS require global initialization to load shared lookup tables.</simpara></listitem> @@ -82,9 +82,19 @@ </refsect2> <refsect2> + <title>Asynchronous signal safety</title> + + <para>No function in &neon; is defined to be <quote>async-signal safe</quote> - + that is, no function is safe to call from a signal handler. Any + call into the &neon; library from a signal handler will have + undefined behaviour - in other words, it may crash the + process.</para> + </refsect2> + + <refsect2> <title>Functions using global state</title> - <para>Any function call in &neon; may modify the + <para>Any function in &neon; may modify the <literal>errno</literal> global variable as a side-effect. Except where explicitly documented, the value of <literal>errno</literal> is unspecified after any &neon; function call.</para> |