Quoth Jerry: > This is precisely why I am asking the question :). given that the > application has a single main thread i do not see why this > expectation is unreasonable or irrational!
If you look at the documentation for signal handlers, you'll see that they get called asynchronous to normal program flow, and thus even in a single-threaded app they're outside of the normal call path. (This is why you're only allowed to call a small subset of functions; throwing exceptions are not included in that set.) In this way, they're similar to interrupt handlers. _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
