Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:33:53 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, gram@cdsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free Message-ID: <199709191133.VAA14034@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>Flushing in abort() should be safe because abort() is not among the >>functions that are safe to call from a signal handler :-). > >Bummer. > >So what should I do in malloc when I realize that continuing doesn't >make sense ? > > kill (diesig, getpid()); ? > for which value of diesig ? Calling abort() from malloc() should be safe because malloc() is not among the functions that are safe to call from a signal handler :-). Bruce
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