Bug 185502
| Summary: | Values for MALLOC_CHECK_ env variable differs in different documentation | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Nigel Horne <njh> |
| Component: | man-pages | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-03-16 11:43:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man3/malloc.3.gz noarch/man-pages-1.67-8.noarch.rpm Thank you for your bug report, the malloc man page is fixed in man-pages-2.25-2. |
Description of problem: Discrepancy between the release notes and man page for malloc Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.3.6-0.fc3.1 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. View file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html with a browser 2. Look for the section on glibc 3. Run "man malloc" Actual results: Release notes claim for malloc_check: * 0 â Do not generate an error message, and do not kill the program * 1 â Generate an error message, but do not kill the program * 2 â Do not generate an error message, but kill the program * 3 â Generate an error message and kill the program man malloc claims for malloc_check: If MALLOC_CHECK_ is set to 0, any detected heap corruption is silently ignored; if set to 1, a diagnostic is printed on stderr; if set to 2, abort() is called immediately. Expected results: Additional info: