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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2020-03-06 14:18:45 -0700
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2020-03-11 09:52:12 -0600
commit24f3e849b5ce9f3bf6b6be5d3e730562e927aa79 (patch)
tree2aeee9a5124aea2f9617971dc2f3421fd8a0e858 /embed.fnc
parent2bc5f86adf5f1c0feb76d83e1a627e5649e6beab (diff)
downloadperl-24f3e849b5ce9f3bf6b6be5d3e730562e927aa79.tar.gz
Add thread safety to some environment accesses
The previous commit added a mutex specifically for protecting against simultaneous accesses of the environment. This commit changes the normal getenv, putenv, and clearenv functions to use it, to avoid races. This makes the code simpler in places where we've gotten burned and added stuff to avoid races. Other places where we haven't known we were getting burned could have existed until now. Now that comes automatically, and we can remove the special cases we earlier stumbled over. getenv() returns a pointer to static memory, which can be overwritten at any moment from another thread, or even another getenv from the same thread. This commit changes the accesses to be under control of a mutex, and in the case of getenv, a mortalized copy is created so that there is no possible race.
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@@ -453,6 +453,8 @@
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: Individual flags may be separated by non-tab whitespace.
+CipRTX |char * |mortal_getenv |NN const char * str
+
#if defined(PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS)
ATo |PerlInterpreter*|perl_alloc_using \
|NN struct IPerlMem *ipM \