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- From: mskucher@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Subject: Buggy malloc workaround
- Message-ID: <Btx211.2DD@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: mskucher@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:24:36 GMT
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- My problems with putuserattr() calls are, according to IBM, caused by a bug
- in malloc implemented in AIX V3.2. According to the man page for malloc,
- you can set the environment variable MALLOCTYPE to "3.1" and it will
- use the older version of malloc.
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- It's not clear whether this is to be done at runtime or compile time.
- Anyone know? My program is to be run by a shell script remotely, and it will
- be tough to ensure that the environment variable is set.
-
- -- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
- Software Systems Co-op, Math Faculty Computing Facility [MFCF] | This is a
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