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title: Signal Handlers

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# Signal Handlers

This is REALLY ANNOYING!!! :angry: 

https://github.com/google/sanitizers/issues/1540

A thread may suddenly enter a signal handler function, and that handler may invoke some underlying TSan operations like mutex locking. Since mutexes in TSan aren't reentrant, this will result in an internal deadlock.


