Re: Question about protected payloads

[Joan Lledó]

> Very briefly, they are an optimization to avoid a lookup. Instead of
> receiving a port name and looking up the associated object from it,
> we use protected payloads, which are merely user-assigned arbitrary
> values associated to ports, to store the address of the associated
> object directly, and that's what you receive instead of the port
> name.

I had a vague idea from what I read in the wiki, now it's clearer. Thanks!

Finally this bug disappeared after switching to a fresh and newer Hurd
image. I guess I broke something after compiling/installing so many
libc and gcc versions in my image during the last year.

Regards.