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From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: malloc crash
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 01:44:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211027014421.595f7c35871ab99d3e6be45e@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXgm0DOdOIabnmiy@calimero.vinschen.de>

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:03:28 +0200
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 26 10:32, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 10/26/2021 5:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Ken, is there a chance to tweak the fifo code to stop creating
> > > threads from inside fixup, and to defer the thread start to the first
> > > call in the process actually relying on the thread being started?
> > 
> > I can't think of any way to do that.  The thread is listening for various
> > events that cause it to take action, so it has to always be running.  But I
> > can probably tweak the code so that the thread doesn't have to call malloc
> > early on.
> > 
> > It might take a while to get this right, and the bug has existed ever since
> > I overhauled the fifo code.  So I don't think you have to hold up releasing
> > 3.3.0 while I work on this.
> 
> Try the below patch instead, per Takashi's testing and subsequent discussion.

Your patch works fine for me.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-26 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-24 21:46 Ken Brown
2021-10-25  8:56 ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-25 13:37   ` Ken Brown
2021-10-25  8:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-25 12:35   ` Ken Brown
2021-10-25 15:39     ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-25 21:29       ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-25 22:02         ` Ken Brown
2021-10-25 23:36           ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-26  0:18             ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-26  0:54               ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-26  8:30                 ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-26  8:52                   ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-26  8:59                     ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-26  9:26                       ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-26  9:31                         ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26  9:28                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26  9:27                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26  9:24           ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26 14:32             ` Ken Brown
2021-10-26 16:03               ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26 16:36                 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-26 16:49                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26 17:10                     ` Ken Brown
2021-10-27  0:44                     ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-27  9:01                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26 16:44                 ` Takashi Yano [this message]

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