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[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> writes:
> Just a data point: many people were turned away from FreeBSD because a
> few PHP releases did a double-free or malloc-inside-signal-handler
> calls. Yes, GNU's malloc should have been stricter, but it's not funny
> when your apache crashes with SIGABORT.

free() / malloc() should never, ever be called inside signal handlers.

One more reason to avoid PHP like the plague.

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