malloc is not thread-safe in glibc

Michael Truog mjtruog@REDACTED
Wed Sep 23 21:31:37 CEST 2009


Wouldn't this malloc glibc bug affect Erlang?
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6952

The glibc maintainer works for RedHat and they have an update for RHEL. 
The ptmalloc3 in the bug report is here:
http://www.malloc.de/en/

Since it is architecture dependent, it wouldn't be a problem for
everyone.  Just was surprised to see it.

- Michael


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