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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-10-27 19:44:32 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-10-27 19:44:32 +0100
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -91,3 +91,14 @@ With that patch in place, the assertion failure is seen more often.
sure we can get that easily lol
[[automatic_backtraces_when_assertions_hit]].
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-09
+
+ <braunr> mhmm, i may have an explanation for the weird assertions we
+ sometimes see in ext2fs
+ <braunr> glibc uses alloca to reserve memory for one reply port per thread
+ in abort_all_rpcs
+ <braunr> if this erases the thread-specific area, we can expect all kinds
+ of wreckage
+ <braunr> i'm not sure how to fix this though