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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sqlite memory allocation and async signal safety
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:13:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfsn7e0l4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfr7abx2.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:21:29 +0800")

> Unfortunately, most system malloc implementations are still not
> async-signal safe,

Since we don't do any malloc inside our signal handler, this is not
an issue.  What Eli meant I think by "async safe" is in terms of
multithreading with pthreads.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-24 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8735j7btyj.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2022-03-24  9:06 ` sqlite memory allocation and async signal safety Po Lu
2022-03-24  9:53   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 10:21     ` Po Lu
2022-03-24 11:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 11:51         ` Po Lu
2022-03-24 17:13       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-03-24 10:21     ` Andreas Schwab
2022-03-24 11:03       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 10:22     ` Po Lu

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