fixing "invalid permission" segfault from #5077 by only starting the amount of thread, memory was allocated for.#5087

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bennet0496:issue5077

Aug 4, 2021

Commits on Jul 28, 2021

fixing "invalid permission" segfault from #5077 by only starting the amount of thread, memory was allocated for.
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updating memory allocation for global TMP and adding safe-guard to not start too many threads where the buffer might be used. Also renaming the global TMP as such. see Rdatatable/data.table#5077 an…
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Commits on Jul 31, 2021

Update News.md to reflect the fix
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Commits on Aug 3, 2021

Commits on Aug 4, 2021

update news item with detail of the 'some circumstances'
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