Re: Is malloc signal-"tolerant"?

[Wolfram Gloger]

> IOW, the idea behind this is to allow memory operations on an error path
> that is strictly separate from a "useful work path" - and the error path
> will never merge with the work path again?

Only if you use siglongjmp().  When you return from the signal handler
'normally', everything should be fine.

> In a sense this means that the error path (entered from a longjmp() out
> of a signal handler) will have to invariably lead to program
> termination?

In most cases I'd say so, yes.

Regards,
Wolfram.