Fix signal handler
SF Markus Elfring
elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Sep 29 13:00:13 CEST 2012
>> 2. Would it eventually need to be protected by a mutex (from the
>> multi-threading perspective)?
>
> Using a mutex in a signal handler is neither conforming nor working in
> practise, so far worse than the current approach.
I find it interesting that the statements "ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_ACQUIRE" and
"ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE" were added recently.
http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.c?r1=1.448&r2=1.449
Regards,
Markus
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