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Subject: Re: Calling malloc from a signal handler
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:52:13AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Is it now permissible to call "malloc" from within a signal handler in  
> FreeBSD-7.x?

No.

Joerg