| Things that still need attention: | |
| * 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). | |
| * 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. |