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Bastien =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roucari=3DE8s?=3D <rouca@debian.org> writes:
> Le jeudi 31 octobre 2024, 17:29:45 UTC Heikki Linnakangas a =C3=A9crit :
>> Why is it bad?

> for a binary it is maybe safe for a library it is unsafe in Multi thread=
 context to capture signal...

[ shrug... ] If we're concerned about that, we should hardly be less
concerned on other platforms than we are on Linux.

(AFAIK, we do not execute the code in question in any libraries.)

			regards, tom lane