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Subject: Re: ppp & signals pending 
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:24:14 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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>Tricky.  As you say, it's difficult to test this stuff.  Trying to prove
>it with statistics will be tricky too, AFAIK, the stdio libs won't
>recurse too well and they call malloc() to boot.

The next version of phkmalloc() will probably have a flag that will
make it reentrant (by blocking signals while in malloc of course :-)

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