Re: Strange behavior with glibc 2.3.1, malloc and threads in Sid
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:10:10AM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote:
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> cvs, so I gave up on this for now. Is my understanding that the malloc'ed
> memory area can be shared between threads in a process correct? That's what
> I've always known and thought, but I might be wrong. Or is it some kind of
> obscure bug in glibc 2.3.1?
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OK, I might be wrong as well, but aren't Linux threads implemented as
full-blown processes? Which means they get their own heap space, so
malloc()'d areas wouldn't be shared. The symptoms you're seeing seems to
confirm this.
T
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