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diff --git a/mmalloc/TODO b/mmalloc/TODO new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46bccc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/mmalloc/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +(1) Make implementation changes necessary to allow multiple processes + to use the mmalloc managed region simultaneously. This requires, + at the minimum, some sort of cooperative locking that ensures that + only one process at a time is changing any of the mmalloc managed + data structures (its ok for the mmalloc managed data regions to be + changed at any time since we don't care about their contents). + +(2) In order to support multiple processes using the mmalloc managed + region, the malloc descriptor needs to be broken into two parts, + one part which is specific to the given process and is maintained + separately on a per process basis, and another part which is common + to all processes. As an example, the file descriptor is specific + to a given process, as are the morecore and abortfunc pointers. + However magic[], the version number, the flags field, etc are + common to all processes. |