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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>,
	Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Understanding why getaddrinfo_a and __gai_enqueue_request use recursive locks
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34cdf978-e9ca-b401-9bbf-af0d4cd84d4f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170925172352.3634940605C@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>

On 09/25/2017 07:23 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
> I think you would need a way to annotate helper functions as needing a lock
> and specify the lock.  It may also take annotations in the caller function.

Do you mean annotations to find resource leaks?

As far as free software tools are concerned, using C++ and RAII looks 
like the only feasible solution (with strong tool support) right now.

Florian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-23  7:08 Will Hawkins
2017-09-23 13:04 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-09-23 14:44   ` Will Hawkins
2017-09-25 16:13     ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-09-25 17:05       ` Will Hawkins
2017-09-25 17:23       ` Hal Murray
2017-09-25 19:06         ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-09-25 20:38           ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-25 20:39         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-09-26  6:29           ` Hal Murray
2017-09-25 23:00       ` Will Hawkins
2017-09-26  4:42         ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-09-26  6:06           ` Will Hawkins
2017-09-26 18:39             ` Will Hawkins
2017-09-27  5:54               ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-09-27  6:02                 ` Will Hawkins
2017-09-27  6:05                   ` Carlos O'Donell

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