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[Ivan Voras]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20070512153532.GQ21795 at elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:

>> I like how phk malloc has it as an option.
> 
> But notice that it is not an option for programs that runs as root
> or setuid/setgid etc.
> 
> Given the hostility of networks, I would support a more hardcore
> attitude to memory mismanagement these days.

Just a data point: many people were turned away from FreeBSD because a
few PHP releases did a double-free or malloc-inside-signal-handler
calls. Yes, GNU's malloc should have been stricter, but it's not funny
when your apache crashes with SIGABORT.




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