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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Paul Richards <p....@elsevier.co.uk> on 1997/01/02 13:44:55 UTC

Re: Guess what? suEXEC problems in 1.2b4...

Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com> writes:

> You are correct, these need to go away. I just discovered that
> FreeBSD-2.2 has a dangerously forgiving malloc and friends. It
> happily plowed through these areas that will probably be a SEGV
> on any other UNIX.

For future ref, read FreeBSD's malloc page, you can create a
config file in /etc that turns on some very strict memory checking
that's generally a good idea on a development box, we've found *lots*
of malloc related bugs in the BSD software with the new malloc that
Poul wrote.

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