* Eric Blake: > On 7/14/19 12:23 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Eric Blake: >> >>> Does anyone know if glibc guarantees that opendir/readdir in between >>> multi-threaded fork() and exec() is safe, even though POSIX does not >>> guarantee that safety in general? >> >> glibc supports malloc after multi-threaded fork as an extension (or as >> a bug, because it makes malloc not async-signal-safe). > > It's not a bug for glibc to provide guarantees above what POSIX > requires, but IS a bug for applications to depend on those guarantees > without realizing they are non-portable.
It's a bug because it makes malloc not async-signal-safe (as required by POSIX) in our current implementation of malloc. -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
