[erlang-questions] malloc is not thread-safe in glibc

[Michael Truog]

In case you were wondering, this should relate to the RHEL release here:
http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/support/sysadmin/security/archive/msg04994.html
(so the release is relatively new)

Michael Truog wrote:
> 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
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> erlang-questions mailing list. See http://www.erlang.org/faq.html
> erlang-questions (at) erlang.org
>
>
>