Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 15:26:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0 Message-ID: <20100521202601.GB8866@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimxAt-VmTgEZwyJp5UXIWbkxpteJXP7mZ_Qwm9q@mail.gmail.com> References: <9B425C841283E0418B1825D40CBCFA613D9E2689CF@ZABRYSVISEXMBX1.af.didata.local> <20100521191856.GA8866@dan.emsphone.com> <AANLkTimxAt-VmTgEZwyJp5UXIWbkxpteJXP7mZ_Qwm9q@mail.gmail.com>
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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. So even though the memory is free'd its still part of the > 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 :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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