Ruby Issue Tracking System

02/18/2015

06:00 PM Ruby Feature #10867 (Feedback): An ATOMIC_GET operation should be written and used.

In some cases rb_atomic_t types are retrieved without synchronization.
Most cases in the code seem very innocuous and unlikely to cause bugs
but an evil optimizing compiler could potentially do bad things
(especially with link time op... sstewartgallus (Steven Stewart-Gallus)

05:46 PM Ruby Bug #10866 (Closed): A signal handler in signal.c can corrupt the value of errno.

A signal handler in signal.c can corrupt the value of errno. This is
common mistake. It should save and restore errno as in the following
patch. I think this is the only signal handler used but I am not that
familiar with the code.... sstewartgallus (Steven Stewart-Gallus)