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In order to prevent signal handler race conditions, a developer must do which of the following?

Call sigsetmask() to set the signal mask to be blocked

Create a mutex within the handler to protect shared resources

Call sigaction() to block the signal and set the signal mask at the same time

Answer:
Call sigaction() to block the signal and set the signal mask at the same time

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