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| author | Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> | 2019-04-22 16:05:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> | 2019-04-23 10:46:56 +0200 |
| commit | 03e389eb43688d7afb256d37069a19b34ebf3c4e (patch) | |
| tree | c8be01ba0916c1b82d5c240af86ff2246944cd60 /docs/src | |
| parent | ab5859129b2c1da33815673862d39ee6105f6437 (diff) | |
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doc: mark uv_async_send() as async-signal-safe
Refs: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/2173
PR-URL: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/2273
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/docs/src/async.rst b/docs/src/async.rst index 02e6a58e..bf611692 100644 --- a/docs/src/async.rst +++ b/docs/src/async.rst @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ API It's safe to call this function from any thread. The callback will be called on the loop thread. + .. note:: + :c:func:`uv_async_send` is `async-signal-safe <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal-safety.7.html>`_. + It's safe to call this function from a signal handler. + .. warning:: libuv will coalesce calls to :c:func:`uv_async_send`, that is, not every call to it will yield an execution of the callback. For example: if :c:func:`uv_async_send` is called 5 |