Re: Query about xmalloc.c (cp is used after free())

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:38:17AM +0530, jags.linux wrote:
> in the above code at 377 xfree(cp) is done and at 381 cp is used to
> copy to the result.
> 
> Is this OK?

Partly. It relies on properties of xfree/imalloc (not to destroy the content
yet), which is ~ok for a realloc implementation. However, it is not thread
safe, and that needs fixing (together with a bunch of other threading issues
in ld.elf_so).

Martin