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| -rw-r--r-- | usage.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -44,7 +44,23 @@ static void warn_builtin(const char *warn, va_list params) static int die_is_recursing_builtin(void) { static int dying; - return dying++; + /* + * Just an arbitrary number X where "a < x < b" where "a" is + * "maximum number of pthreads we'll ever plausibly spawn" and + * "b" is "something less than Inf", since the point is to + * prevent infinite recursion. + */ + static const int recursion_limit = 1024; + + dying++; + if (dying > recursion_limit) { + return 1; + } else if (dying == 2) { + warning("die() called many times. Recursion error or racy threaded death!"); + return 0; + } else { + return 0; + } } /* If we are in a dlopen()ed .so write to a global variable would segfault |