[issue16212] mmap() dumps core upon resizing the underlying file

[Vladimir Ushakov]

Vladimir Ushakov added the comment:

I know how to avoid the problem in my case, the bug does not really affect me. I posted it because I thought that the possibility to crash the interpreter is something to be avoided at all costs.

I've found a few examples of handling non-restartable signals with longjmps, but not that familiar with the codebase to estimate how reliably it can be done on all supported platforms. I don't really know how this code would behave, say, on Windows.

I'm gonna do some research on the topic when I have a little more time.

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