Igor Podlesny writes:
> Previously users could have different behaviour of malloc simultaneously: one
> in
> global FS, others in chroots. Say, in global it could be more relaxed
> with lesser
> performance impact and in some chroots more drastic, at contrary. With
> 6.5 it's not
> possible anymore, is it really so? This change has own pluses as well
> indeed: one
> knob to rule them all but then what if you need something special in
> just one place,
> something that shouldn't be following global sysctl parameters -- how
> do you get it(?)
You didn't check the manpage.
Upon the first call to the malloc() family of functions, an
initialization sequence inspects the value of the vm.malloc_conf
sysctl(2), next checks the environment for a variable called
MALLOC_OPTIONS, and finally looks at the global variable malloc_options
in the program.
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Anthony J. Bentley
