From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Fri Feb 05 1999 - 01:50:56 EST
Godmar Back writes:
> >
> > Godmar et. al.,
> >
> > Regarding this problem of protecting non-reentrant libc routines
> > (like malloc()) with mutex's... it seems like we should apply
> > some kind of immediate fix now, even if a less than optimal one.
> > Then we can work out optimizations later.
> >
> > My ulterior motive here is that we're trying to get Apache
> > working with jserv, and it's working OK but bombing out with
> > "recursive malloc" errors.
> >
> > What would be the simplest thing we could slap on there for
> > the time being? I'd be willing to do it if you can explain
> > how it can be done simply.
> >
> > By the way, I don't think the JNI spec says anything about
> > whether native code can expect to be protected from preemption.
> > Does anyone know more about this? If not, we have to protect
> > all native calls anyway.
> >
>
> Hmmm, I'm still trying to find the problem in Linux...
>
> I'd like to see a backtrace of a recursive malloc call.
> Is that possible?
I'll try to get one..
-Archie
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