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Re: [PATCH 2/4] Initialize tunable list with the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable



On Saturday 31 December 2016 09:20 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Saturday 31 December 2016 09:15 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> This still has an implicit comparision against '\0', which is against
>> the style guide.
> 
> Ack, I'll fix it up.
> 
>>> +  /* FIXME: In reality this will not return NULL, it will crash
>>> attempting to
>>> +     set the thread-local errno since the TCB has not yet been set
>>> up.  This
>>> +     needs to be fixed with an __sbrk implementation that does not set
>>> +     errno.  */
>>> +  if (out == (void *)-1)
>>> +    return NULL;
>>
>> Comment does not match: NULL is not (void *) -1.

I changed it to:


FIXME: In reality if the allocation fails, __sbrk will crash attempting
to set the thread-local errno since the TCB has not yet been set up.
This needs to be fixed with an __sbrk implementation that does not set
errno.


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