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author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2022-08-10 17:56:07 +0300 |
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committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2022-08-10 19:05:12 +0300 |
commit | 86d2126173b8374163b1de1bb723283345b128cc (patch) | |
tree | 6cc46528595b242e35aed7ae6cdb15350bb46b42 /winsup | |
parent | afa71179992e704734ff8aa5da1a3e02b8cdcd27 (diff) |
Cygwin: mm/malloc_wrapper.cc: fix a comment
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup')
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/mm/malloc_wrapper.cc | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/mm/malloc_wrapper.cc b/winsup/cygwin/mm/malloc_wrapper.cc index 8d12eb637..de3cf7ddc 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/mm/malloc_wrapper.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/mm/malloc_wrapper.cc @@ -298,12 +298,11 @@ strdup (const char *s) return p; } -/* We use a critical section to lock access to the malloc data - structures. This permits malloc to be called from different - threads. Note that it does not make malloc reentrant, and it does - not permit a signal handler to call malloc. The malloc code in - newlib will call __malloc_lock and __malloc_unlock at appropriate - times. */ +/* We use a SRW lock to lock access to the malloc data structures. This + permits malloc to be called from different threads. Note that it does + not make malloc reentrant, and it does not permit a signal handler to + call malloc. The malloc code in newlib will call __malloc_lock and + __malloc_unlock at appropriate times. */ SRWLOCK NO_COPY mallock = SRWLOCK_INIT; |