Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:28:14 -0700

Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Note: there was a dubious usage of fd when calling release_pack_memory() 
> in xmmap() which is now removed.
...
> @@ -100,7 +112,7 @@ void *xmmap(void *start, size_t length,
>  	if (ret == MAP_FAILED) {
>  		if (!length)
>  			return NULL;
> -		release_pack_memory(length, fd);
> +		try_to_free_routine(length);

This isn't dubious!  The fd passed here is to prevent the pack
release code from closing this fd right before we try to mmap it.
Its an actual bug fix that I had to write years ago, check the
history of that section of code...  :-)

-- 
Shawn.