Should newblock() be protected by BLOCK

Jeroen Demeyer on Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:29:43 +0100

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Should newblock() be protected by BLOCK_SIGINT?

To: pari-dev@pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr
Subject: Should newblock() be protected by BLOCK_SIGINT?
From: Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer@UGent.be>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:29:41 +0100

I was looking at the newblock/killblock code today and I noticed thatkillblock (better known as gunclone) is protected by BLOCK_SIGINT butnewblock is not. It's not clear to me whether this is really a bug, butit seems safer to protect newblock also with BLOCK_SIGINT.



Cheers,
Jeroen

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