Bug 537333

Summary:	MALLOC_PERTURB_ lacks documentation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	drjohnson1, fweimer, jakub, peterm, schwab
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Description Jeff Garzik 2009-11-13 08:29:00 UTC

Description of problem:
While researching memory debugging, a mailing list post in an unrelated project pointed me to Uli's 2006 post about MALLOC_PERTURB_: http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11429.html

This LJ post is really the only description of the feature, outside of the source code itself.

Therefore, I request that mention of MALLOC_PERTURB_ be added to the glibc manual somewhere.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Current git, as of Nov 13, 2009.

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. attempt to locate MALLOC_PERTURB_ docs in glibc git repo
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Actual results:


Expected results:
"info libc" provides some mention of MALLOC_PERTURB_

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 15:30:43 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping