Re: [ID 20000124.004] "perl in malloc(): warning: recursive call" on

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

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.

Ilya

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Follow-Ups from:

Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>

References to:

Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>

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