standard error handling for malloc() broken for user root and group wheel

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Feb 19 00:25:15 PST 2004


In message <20040219121708.U23382 at gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>%%%
>$ MALLOC_OPTIONS=A grep foo /dev/zero
>grep in realloc(): error: allocation failed

Hmm, I thought that check was removed long time ago.

It's gone in the version I am testing right now (see other email).


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