[PATCH] Async signal safe TLS accesses

Rich Felker dalias@aerifal.cx
Sat Nov 30 07:29:00 GMT 2013


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 04:55:48AM +0100, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> A proper solution would be make generic malloc async-signal safe. It is 
> question of what is acceptable overhead. I can make a wrapper over any
> allocator that does that at cost of two tls access. You would pay a mmap
> overhead only when you are in signal where we do not care about
> effectivity.

Not a solution as long as glibc officially supports applications
replacing malloc.

Rich



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