From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 25 14:26:13 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 86BB31528A for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:26:09 -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 RAA97734; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:25:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:25:40 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Ilya Zakharevich Cc: Lars Eggert , perl5-porters@perl.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ID 20000124.004] "perl in malloc(): warning: recursive call" on In-Reply-To: <20000125150945.C2011@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> 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 Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 02:44:05PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > 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. > > One can write a signal handler in such a way that no mallocs are going > to be called (see my example). But this would not help: segfaults > will happen anyway. Do you know for a fact that perl, in the signal handler code, is not calling malloc? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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