An application hangs in a signal handler, due to call of a not async-signal-safe function

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • An application hangs in a signal handler, for example, it hangs in _tz_convert() function called by localtime_r()

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • glibc

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