We just discovered a nasty bug in glibc-2.3.2 which can lead to "random" memory corruption in multi-threaded applications using NPTL. This definitely affects Debian/{testing,unstable}, but it may affect other distros as well. I also believe that the CVS glibc still has this bug, so I suspect it's not just glibc-2.3.2 that's affected. For details, see: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=685 --david