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RE: stack overflow bug in ofstream::operator<<


On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 28 June 2005 18:13
>
> > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> >>   Hmm.  Can't we tell how much space there is on the stack from the
> >> pointers to the stack limits in the NT_TIB (or whatever lives at %fs on
> >> 9x), where we get the tls pointers from?
> >
> > I wonder -- would temporarily installing a signal handler be too much
> > overhead?
>
>   I would have thought it's a lot more work than reading a word from
> offset(%fs), subtracting it from the current %esp value, and comparing
> it to the size we need....

Ok.

> > Or is it a thread safety issue (global vars, etc)?
>
>   Is *what* a thread safety issue?

There's a need for communication between a signal handler and the writeev
function.  This is usually done either via global storage (with the
obvious drawbacks) or thread-local storage (requiring synchronization,
unless a pointer to thread-local data is readily available).
	Igor
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