Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:25:58 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: "Anton Berezin" <tobez@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl (5.6.1) and perl-malloc() in the FreeBSD port Message-ID: <20020730122558.52e3f86e.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020729161656.GC44660@heechee.tobez.org> References: <200207280914.g6S9EINq064394@freefall.freebsd.org> <200207291210.42191.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20020723125836.1ce8ed68.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20020726000942.GI68811@heechee.tobez.org> <20020729161656.GC44660@heechee.tobez.org>
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:16:56 +0200 "Anton Berezin" <tobez@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Let me answer by citing most of the mail I've written to netchild a
> couple of days ago:
[...]
My main reason for requesting this knob is to be able to do a quick test
if this solves some problems with signal handlers (recursive calls to
malloc and free, yes I know, I may want safe signals from 5.8.0) for a
particular package (interchange). On Linux (where perl-malloc gets used)
it runs without problems, on FreeBSD it has problems ocassionally. The
author of interchanges blames perl on FreeBSD, because some of the
problems only show up on FreeBSD.
So far the debugging session showed a bug in setproctitle() on a 4.4
system (fixed in 4.6, I don't know about 4.5). Some bugs are
reproducible on Linux too, so I'm out of it and let others (those more
familiar with interchange/perl) debug them further. A bug with
getpwuid() is still on the TODO list (it shows up on 4.6, but not on
4.4).
A short note: simple test cases work, it seems to be some strange
interaction required to trigger the bugs.
Bye,
Alexander.
--
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