POSIX: don't allocate memory after forking.

Previously we would allocate memory in the child process. However, the
allocation might have happened while the malloc lock was held,
resulting in a deadlock.

This patch removes allocation from the child but probably makes Mac's
startup time slower until a Mac person can implement
dir_reader_posix.h.

TEST=Unittest for new code
BUG=36678

http://codereview.chromium.org/672003

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@41275 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/base/dir_reader_posix.h b/base/dir_reader_posix.h
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+// Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#ifndef BASE_DIR_READER_POSIX_H_
+#define BASE_DIR_READER_POSIX_H_
+
+#include "build/build_config.h"
+
+// This header provides a class, DirReaderPosix, which allows one to open and
+// read from directories without allocating memory. For the interface, see
+// the generic fallback in dir_reader_fallback.h.
+
+#if defined(OS_LINUX)
+#include "base/dir_reader_linux.h"
+#else
+#include "base/dir_reader_fallback.h"
+#endif
+
+namespace base {
+
+#if defined(OS_LINUX)
+typedef DirReaderLinux DirReaderPosix;
+#else
+typedef DirReaderFallback DirReaderPosix;
+#endif
+
+}  // namespace base
+
+#endif // BASE_DIR_READER_POSIX_H_