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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2001 09:06:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: _sigprocmask in malloc.c causes full file table?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010812090502.18424A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010812152655.A1569@elephant.netrinsics.com>

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On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Michael Robinson wrote:
> Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
> >Malloc is not re-entrant...i.e.
> >you cannot use in in a signal handler..
> 
> Thank you for that very helpful bit of information, but I already knew that.
> 
> What I do not know is how it is possible for a null _sigprocmask call
> (a SIG_BLOCK call with no mask bits set) in libc/stdlib/malloc.c to cause a

Sorry, I missed this the first time...  Where is there a _sigprocmask()
call in libc/stdlib/malloc.c?  I don't find one.

-- 
Dan Eischen

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