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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:42:13 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp
Subject:   Re: MALLOC(3) writes to stderr...
Message-ID:  <199702251342.AAA10884@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>How should we deal with this anomaly? Yep, fixing jserver's memory
>allocation thoroughly might be the ultimate solution, but we need a
>practical solution for now. Must we change jserver to keep stderr open
>and to put error messages into /var/log/jserver.log or something? Or
>make malloc(3) keep silent?

Library routines shouldn't write to std* unless instructed to.  There
should be a malloc option to control the behaviour.  However, malloc()
only seems to print to stderr after severe errors that might have caused
a core dump on other systems.

Bruce



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