It's a normal part of PHK malloc, the standard FreeBSD malloc. It's for
turning on certain debugging options. PHK used a cute trick with symlinks to
avoid having to actually open a configuration file. See malloc(3).
Jason Young
Access US Chief Network Engineer
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leif Neland
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:23 PM
> To: Kris Kennaway
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: libc.so.4 not found
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> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
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> > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 10:28:53PM +0100, Leif Neland wrote:
> > > Could this be the reason why Avp (virusscanner) for FreeBSD
> 4X just dumps
> > > core on Fbsd current?
> > > It works on a Fbsd stable.
> >
> > Could be malloc.conf defaults. i.e. a bug in avp triggered by the
> > debugging /etc/malloc.conf settings in -current.
> >
> > Kris
> >
> A truss shows Avp tries to open /etc/malloc.conf, but I have no such file
> on any of my systems, stable or current.
>
> But Avp continues after this failure.
>
> Do I need /etc/malloc.conf? Where do I find one?
>
> Leif
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