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POSIX

A family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. It defines a standard OS interface and environment, including command line shells and standard APIs.

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POSIX Signal Handling: Asynchronous Contexts and Reentrancy

Unpacking asynchronous execution contexts, async-signal-safe functions, and the hidden dangers of reentrancy that make printf and malloc unsafe inside a signal handler.