Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:54:26 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bug in sshd - signal during free() Message-ID: <20010922145426.A686@iv.nn.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <200109172104.f8HL45641959@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:04:05PM -0700 References: <200109172032.f8HKW6M41638@earth.backplane.com> <20010917160103.Z968@elvis.mu.org> <200109172104.f8HL45641959@earth.backplane.com>
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Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 14:04:05, dillon (Matt Dillon) wrote about "Re: bug in sshd - signal during free()": > It's funny... they had an XXX comment in there so obviously someone > was a little jittery about it. I think they just didn't realize that > a malloc() might occur inside the signal handler or they would have > fixed it long ago. Have they real reason to do regeneration in signal handler, instead of interrupting a wait and using a notification variable? I cannot imagine such reason. > UNIX signals suck. - I hate cats! They smells, their hair flies everywhere! - Oh, dear, you simply should study how to cook them better. (sorry for possible translation stones) /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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