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Do signal handlers have a separate stack, (like each thread have separate stacks)?

This is in Linux/C context.

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From the Linux manual page signal(7):

By default, the signal handler is invoked on the normal process stack.
It is possible to arrange that the signal handler uses an alternate stack;
see sigaltstack(2) for a discussion of how to do this and when it might
be useful.
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