mmalloc/TODO

   1 Things that still need attention:
   2
   3    *    Make implementation changes necessary to allow multiple processes
   4         to use the mmalloc managed region simultaneously.  This requires,
   5         at the minimum, some sort of cooperative locking that ensures that
   6         only one process at a time is changing any of the mmalloc managed
   7         data structures (its ok for the mmalloc managed data regions to be
   8         changed at any time since we don't care about their contents).
   9
  10    *    In order to support multiple processes using the mmalloc managed
  11         region, the malloc descriptor needs to be broken into two parts,
  12         one part which is specific to the given process and is maintained
  13         separately on a per process basis, and another part which is common
  14         to all processes.  As an example, the file descriptor is specific
  15         to a given process, as are the morecore and abortfunc pointers.
  16         However magic[], the version number, the flags field, etc are
  17         common to all processes.