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vonuebelgarten on Dec 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Combining coins to reach a target sum (C, Python)

Because your signal handler may get interrupted by another signal.

smcdow on Dec 30, 2011 [–]

So what? Even then, there will be no concurrency issues in a single threaded application.

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