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Date:      Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      HighWind Software Information <info@highwind.com>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au
Subject:   Re: Thread Problems
Message-ID:  <199809080021.UAA04192@highwind.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809072254.RAA06607@ns.tar.com> (lists@tar.com)

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Seems to me that libc_r can call free() from within a signal handler.
Given the non-recursive nature of this call, this is a serious
problem:

SIGVTALARM comes in (to check for context switching right?),
_thread_sig_handler gets it, it can (and does) call
_thread_kern_sched, _thread_kern_sched calls free() in a number of
different places.

This (to my libc_r-newbie-eyes) is *BAD*. Besides getting that message
printed, can this cause corruption of data?

Should I open a PR?

-Rob

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