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

[Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:

> 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.

Do you know for a fact that perl, in the signal handler code, is not
calling malloc?

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