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monocasa on Jan 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?

At the cost of extra bandwidth and interrupt latency.

amelius on Jan 4, 2017 [–]

Yes, but only marginally if they changed the size only 1 out of 1000 times.

spdionis on Jan 4, 2017 | [–]

Adding complexity (that could result in bugs) in the hope to prevent bugs by bad usage of the interface is usually a bad idea.

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