On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 08:18:14PM +0100, David Laight wrote:

 > I thought the point about abort() was that you could call it from a
 > signal handler and it would flush the stdio streams....

Flushing stdio streams is particularly dangerous to do in a signal
handler, because doing so could require acquiring a mutex.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>