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Re: deadlock caused by gettext usage in a signal handler
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- From: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@xxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: deadlock caused by gettext usage in a signal handler
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:02:19 +0100
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Le Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:43:24 +0000,
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> zsh doesn't ever use gettext() directly
I overlooked that, great that Zsh does not use strsignal and perror ;-)
Zsh seems to use dlerror though, hopefully not in a signal handler.
> Alternatively, we could use strerror_r()
strerror_r also calls into gettext, so I don't see how this solves the
problem. I have been caught by the gettext initialization as it's a
bigger malloc consumer than a simple gettext call but according to a
comment by Paul Eggert in:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/diffutils/lib/c-stack.c?root=diffutils&view=markup
Do not translate them in the signal handler, since gettext is not
async-signal-safe.
You can see that strerror_r calls gettext in:
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/string/_strerror.c?rev=1.1.2.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=glibc
return (char *) _(_sys_errlist_internal[errnum]);
> To get diff output for a test failure while I was writing this I needed
Does that mean you managed to make a reproducible test case?
> to use "diff -a" in ztst.zsh. I'm not sure if the option is universal,
> however.
Confused, I can't see any diff invocation in your patch. From some
googling, POSIX does not specify it
(http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/diff.html),
but the BSDs provide it anyway
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE&format=html),
some use GNU diff.
It seems to me a possible solution would be to rewrite strerror() in Zsh
to initially build a static table of translated error messages as
well as the translation of "Unknown error ". Don't know how much this
would delay the Zsh startup though.
Thanks.
--
Guillaume
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