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Date:      Sun, 13 May 2007 14:38:30 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=)
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS DOWN
Message-ID:  <86hcqg2915.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <f25m78$ik$2@sea.gmane.org> (Ivan Voras's message of "Sun\, 13 May 2007 02\:30\:29 %2B0200")
References:  <20070512153532.GQ21795@elvis.mu.org> <63984.1178992555@critter.freebsd.dk> <f25m78$ik$2@sea.gmane.org>

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Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> writes:
> Just a data point: many people were turned away from FreeBSD because a
> few PHP releases did a double-free or malloc-inside-signal-handler
> calls. Yes, GNU's malloc should have been stricter, but it's not funny
> when your apache crashes with SIGABORT.

free() / malloc() should never, ever be called inside signal handlers.

One more reason to avoid PHP like the plague.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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