From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 25 11:44:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5E814C37 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA97160; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:44:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:44:05 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Lars Eggert Cc: Ilya Zakharevich , perl5-porters@perl.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ID 20000124.004] "perl in malloc(): warning: recursive call" on In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Lars Eggert wrote: > Ilya, > > thanks for the quick response. > > > Signals and Perl do not mix. Please do not use signals if a segfault > > is not a desirable form of output. > > Never? After reading perlipc I was under the impression that using signals > was okay if you keep your handlers simple. I may have to use to another form > of IPC if signals cannot be made safe. Our malloc can't be used in a signal handler. > > Lars > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Lars Eggert Information Sciences Institute > http://www.isi.edu/~larse/ University of Southern California > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message