From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 02:27:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89A5106564A for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 02:27:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anoop.kn@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD378FC19 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 02:27:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj5 with SMTP id 5so2759302pwj.13 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 19:27:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yV5LWS5frRrDIvOm5g8BGs6ZCkaTP/4JBRWApWpFsN4=; b=M4/qzJmLLdmLVsCJNEPckT1tq2+ZiNt4lGv10dZVrttoXVP/wjYuknc6gBIrk+N9OX WEzfLEgE8jnZNPsro6oyQoIQt2INPwMbpZpIYajv39f35offFOzQyDkbO9qx9wyUUFkz 6nqZo08TbQstmSzDCgphfBaaeBKCx1Ybm3Z7c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GlLo38IqJxNzuWFDo5raJBBAvl7zo9oRuFIgKnNg+72tfMYA+PlmKL9wrytrLp3Jr2 OlX8TXQBz4vArUuWQReUtYeofjCe0N5v1SJEqEiDFSHNFo7CjeocH+OFGfc9rlINKxel pu9Pjf6g81GQToFQ6GruA5BGQQC+E6ec6VeZU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.207.11 with SMTP id e11mr5598686wfg.93.1274840819802; Tue, 25 May 2010 19:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.170.16 with HTTP; Tue, 25 May 2010 19:26:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100521202601.GB8866@dan.emsphone.com> References: <9B425C841283E0418B1825D40CBCFA613D9E2689CF@ZABRYSVISEXMBX1.af.didata.local> <20100521191856.GA8866@dan.emsphone.com> <20100521202601.GB8866@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 07:56:59 +0530 Message-ID: From: Anoop Kumar Narayanan To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 02:27:00 -0000 On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Dan Nelson wrote= : > In the last episode (May 22), Anoop Kumar Narayanan said: >> I think glibc uses asynchronous free, as in it doesn't free the memory >> immediately. =A0So even though the memory is free'd its still part of th= e >> process's address space but present in the free pool and so it doesn't >> crash. > > FreeBSD doesn't use glibc, so that doesn't apply here :) :) Oh yeah, BSD has its own libc > > -- > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Dan Nelson > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >