Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 11:27:42PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > It is not legal to recursively call malloc/free/realloc, and therefore > > you should either protect all calls to malloc/free/realloc by blocking > > signals or better: not call them in signal handlers. > > Ok, thanks. I guess we have a genuine tcsh(1) bug here. > > Who's maintaining tcsh? Can he/she suggest what to do or otherwise > take it from here?
The Single UNIX Specification Standard and POSIX both explicitly state that it is not safe to call memory management functions from signal handlers. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
