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Re: Crash while testing a completion: trap handlers and malloc?

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Crash while testing a completion: trap handlers and malloc?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:05:31 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:47:49 +0000
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Bart Schaefer wrote:

> In the same shell where I'd been testing my patch from 7929, I was fooling
> with the _mailboxes updates I sent in 7932.  I typed "mutt -f <TAB>" and
> got a core dump with the following huge stack trace.  Note that the SIGALRM
> trap handler is being called (so it's a TMOUT thing) and further that it is
> being called during zalloc().  This is bad news, as the malloc() arena is
> not re-entrant in most implementations.

I think the library should take care of this, but maybe if we move the 
(|un)queue_signals() calls from our malloc down into zalloc() and friends?

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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