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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: bin/2347: sysinstall: ppp: recursive call in malloc() 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 12:51:43 +1100."
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 08:16:27 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <199701020151.MAA20387@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>> >  I'm not definitively sure what POSIX & friends say about the reentrancy
>> >  of malloc(3) but I belive it is not required to be reentrant.
>>  
>POSIX doesn't allow it either of course.

OK, I guess we can conclude that ppp needs fixed then, not malloc.

Thanks!
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