bugprone-signal-handler

Finds functions registered as signal handlers that call non asynchronous-safe functions. Any function that cannot be determined to be an asynchronous-safe function call is assumed to be non-asynchronous-safe by the checker, including user functions for which only the declaration is visible. User function calls with visible definition are checked recursively. The check handles only C code. Only the function names are considered and the fact that the function is a system-call, but no other restrictions on the arguments passed to the functions (the signal call is allowed without restrictions).

This check corresponds to the CERT C Coding Standard rule SIG30-C. Call only asynchronous-safe functions within signal handlers and has an alias name cert-sig30-c.

AsyncSafeFunctionSet

Selects which set of functions is considered as asynchronous-safe (and therefore allowed in signal handlers). Value minimal selects a minimal set that is defined in the CERT SIG30-C rule and includes functions abort(), _Exit(), quick_exit() and signal(). Value POSIX selects a larger set of functions that is listed in POSIX.1-2017 (see this link for more information). The function quick_exit is not included in the shown list. It is assumable that the reason is that the list was not updated for C11. The checker includes quick_exit in the set of safe functions. Functions registered as exit handlers are not checked.

Default is POSIX.