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Re: Emacs deadlock: malloc inside signal handler inside malloc ...
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Joe Wells |
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Re: Emacs deadlock: malloc inside signal handler inside malloc ... |
Date: |
Mon, 07 May 2007 00:17:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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