Re: Emacs deadlock: malloc inside signal handler inside malloc ...

[Joe Wells]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Notice that malloc is being called inside a signal handler, which has
>     interrupted malloc!
>
> That ought to be impossible due to the BLOCK_INPUT near the top
> of the body of allocate_string_data.
> What is the value of interrupt_input_blocked?

Sorry, I lost the running image (X Windows locked up and I had to
reboot), and have no core dump file.  I'll make sure to get a core
dump if I see it again.

I'm very happy to hear that there are precautions to prevent this from
happening.

-- 
Joe