Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:28:31 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, nate@sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFV: adding phk_malloc to -stable Message-ID: <199603190828.JAA02235@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <1695.827217597@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 19, 96 06:39:38 am
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> Hrm, Hrm, I'd like to point out that phkmalloc is perfectly fine, and that > no problems have been filed against it for the last N months. > > The problem is that >other programs< foul up their nest when using malloc. > phkmalloc detects this and complains... > > Yes, we >may< indeed consider shipping an replacement libc. Note that this will not interfere with statically linked binaries such as /bin/sh (Nate was suspecting a bug in /bin/sh). Is this good news (no risk of breaking things in /bin and /sbin) or bad news (no chance to test widely the above programs) ? Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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