On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Without knowing the details of how the structure to which t_sobj_ops is > pointing gets managed it seems to me that there's a tiny window of > opportunity between recording the address of the structure into > this->tmp and the structure itself dealocated/reused for something > else. Of course, the recorded address will still be valid, but once > you do this->tmp->sobj_type you might get garbage. > > Can this happen?
No. t_sobj_ops is always assigned the address of a static structure that is never deallocated. But it's a fair point for other cases, and I don't think there's a generic solution. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org
