Emacs dired problem triggered by NPTL-enabled glibc

David Mosberger davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Mon Dec 29 23:33:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:07:38 -0800, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> said:

  >> Thanks, but I must still be missing something.  setrlimit() is
  >> perfectly happy to set a non-page-size-aligned limit, so I don't
  >> understand how the code in init.c could succeed if Emacs were to
  >> set a limit that's greater than PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, but not
  >> page-aligned.

  Roland> You are correct.  I've added a test case that creates the
  Roland> same situation (just by doing "ulimit -s 1023" before
  Roland> running a test binary).  It hits the assert as well.
  Roland> (Production builds won't see this since they define NDEBUG.)

  Roland> I made the initializer round the value taken from getrlimit
  Roland> up to page size.

Sounds great.

Thanks!

	--david



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