Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:06:07 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS DOWN Message-ID: <86lkfryjds.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <46478C9A.9050807@fer.hr> (Ivan Voras's message of "Mon\, 14 May 2007 00\:09\:30 %2B0200") References: <20070512153532.GQ21795@elvis.mu.org> <63984.1178992555@critter.freebsd.dk> <f25m78$ik$2@sea.gmane.org> <20070513215442.GZ21795@elvis.mu.org> <46478C9A.9050807@fer.hr>
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> writes: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > We can't be "bug for bug tolerant" with Linnex without copying their > > allocator. > No, but we can with the documented parts, and > malloc-inside-signal-handler support is documented > (http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/library_toc.ht= ml#SEC357). That would require adding at least two system calls to the malloc() / free() overhead to support an extremely rare case which is already documented not to work, and known not to work on numerous other platforms. It is wrong of the PHP authors to assume that all the world is GNU / Linux. I see no reason not vindicate their mistakes. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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