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unix: document unsafety for std `sig{action,altstack}`
I found many surprising elements here while trying to wrap a measly 5 functions with `unsafe`. I would rather not "just" mindlessly wrap this code with `unsafe { }`, so I decided to document it properly.
On Unix, this code covers the "create and setup signal handler" part of the stack overflow code, and serves as the primary safety boundary for the signal handler. It is rarely audited, very gnarly, and worth extra attention. It calls other unsafe functions defined in this module, but "can we correctly map the right memory, or find the right address ranges?" are separate questions, and get increasingly platform-specific. The question here is the more general "are we doing everything in the correct order, and setting up the handler in the correct way?"
As part of this audit, I noticed that we do some peculiar things that we should probably refrain from. However, I avoided making changes that I deemed might have a different final result in Rust programs. I did, however, reorder some events so that the signal handler is installed _after_ we install the alternate stack. We do not run much code between these events, but it is probably best if the timespan between the handler being available and the new stack being installed is 0 nanoseconds.
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