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From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] notify woe
Date: Tue,  6 Apr 2004 21:40:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040407014056.GA30936@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <015701c41c3d$7c209770$8201a8c0@cc77109e>

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:10:38AM +1000, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> gee, don't call malloc from a notify function, this is from mk ...
> 
> actually don't call wait, or any library function that allocates,
> from a notify function.  how's my timing in interrupting a malloc?

I seem to recall stumbling over that one a year or two
ago and mentioning it to the list or 9trouble.  Actually,
I think it was a race for the malloc lock, perhaps, that
could cause a deadlock in the thread library at interrupt
time.  Similar issue in any case...


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-07  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-07  1:10 Bruce Ellis
2004-04-07  1:40 ` William Josephson [this message]
2004-04-07  2:16   ` Bruce Ellis
2004-04-07  3:28     ` William Josephson

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