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From: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at)
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free
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> >
> >Flushing in abort() should be safe because abort() is not among the
> >functions that are safe to call from a signal handler :-).
> 
> Bummer.
> 
> So what should I do in malloc when I realize that continuing doesn't
> make sense ?
> 
> 	kill (diesig, getpid()); ?
> 	for which value of diesig ?

	raise( SIGABRT );?
	
or the equivalent

	kill( getpid(), SIGABRT);?
	
/Marino
> 
> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
>