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Re: [PATCH] Segfault while unwinding an invalid function pointer

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:36:02AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:57:02PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > This seems to me like the cure is worse than the disease.
> > 
> > Then you should document somewhere that the unwinder is racy in this
> > regard.
> 
> Only for broken programs which munmap code pages which are still in use by
> some other thread.  Big deal.

It's racy if you unmap the unwinder, too :-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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