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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:51:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        archie@whistle.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inetd: realloc/free bug
Message-ID:  <199812110651.WAA34943@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <199812110628.WAA23665@bubba.whistle.com>

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:Matthew Dillon writes:
:> :> inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
:> :> inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
:> :> 
:> :
:> :http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8183
:> :
:>     Ick.  character flags through a pipe?  Ick.  Ick.  Let me fix this 
:>     thing, guys, I'm getting tired of all the arguing and non-action for
:>     such a simple bug.
:
:It's not trivial if you want to guarantee that no signals are missed.
:There's no way atomically to: unblock signals and call select().
:
:-Archie

    If you put a time limit on select(), it doesn't matter if there is a
    race condition there.  How does select() cause a signal to be missed ?

						-Matt

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