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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:34:10 -0800
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Any more on this.  I haven't been able to find anything
> on our end.
 
Not yet. I got side-tracked by dynamic root breakages. That's over
with for now, so I'm back on KSE...

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