On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alan Burlison wrote: > Arthur Bergman wrote: > > > longjmp in a controlled fashion isn't thread-safe? Or longjmping while > > holding mutexs and out from asynchronous handlers is not thread-safe? > > Arthur It *may* be possible to use longjmp in threaded programs in a > restricted fashion on some platforms. However if you use it on > Solaris, for example, where we don't commit to it being thread-safe > and it breaks - tough. This includes breakage introduced by either > new patches or new OS releases, as we haven't committed to it being > thread-safe in the first place.
This raises another issue: Is the Perl_croak() thing going to stay around? As far as I can tell, this uses siglongjmp. I personally can't think of any other way to do this type of exception handling in C, so either we don't use croak(), find another way to do it, or just deal with the potential problems. - D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
