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From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: David Xu <davidxu@viatech.com.cn>
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:35:21AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> >
> The returned memory block from malloc() is being used by unknown code, I 
> don't know
> why it occurs, but if you waste a memory block by applying the following 
> patch for
> thr_alloc(), then things work:

The memory block is clobbered by a ucontext_t. This may be the result
of the kernel doing the upcall (though indirectly I would suspect).

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net