Async‑signal-safety and why should you care

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Async‑signal-safety and why should you care

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Signal safety and why should you care

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UPDATE 2025-07-25: Clarified async-signal safety in context of boost::asio::signal_set Calling a...

I encounter memory corruption issue at work coming from a signal handler and decided to write a blog post about it. Feedback welcome.

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