Signal Handling Woes

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

W liście z wto, 11-11-2003, godz. 18:11, Wolfgang Thaller pisze:

> I'm really not sure what happens when two signal handlers try to write 
> to the same pipe at the same time. Are multi-byte writes from separate 
> threads atomic with respect to each other?

I think they are guaranteed to be atomic up to 4096 bytes at a time.
But I don't remember who does this guarantee (Linux or some standard).

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