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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040219211350.H1230 at gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>[The problem turned out to be mainly controlling both undefined behaviour
>and standard behaviour with the same flag.]
>
>> Think if the 'A' option as userland SIGSEGV.  (peter@ actually suggested
>> that I make it kill(getpid(), SIGSEGV) before calling abort in order
>> to let a process install a handler for it.
>
>Programs can already catch SIGABRT, and they probably need to be familiar
>with malloc's internals to trap its errors sort of safely, so it is
>reasonable to expect them to know what to trap.

There is already a hook for catching the message.

And I still think you guys overlook the fact that phkmalloc is being
a heck of a lot more informative than any other production malloc(3)
implementation which generally just croak or corrupt.

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