Re: syslog crashes with heap corruption in malloc.

[Wolfram Gloger]

> The syslog function in my program  is crashing.  From the stack trace I
> found that, the malloc function is causing heap correption in between
> the syslog calls.  Iam using redhat6.1 with glibc2.1.x.i386.rpm.

This is quite unlikely.  It is much more likely that the heap
is already corrupt before the call to syslog.

> I also checked with  MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable It didnt helped
> me.  Iam getting really bugged of with this bug.
> 
> It will be a very big relief, if somebody could help me out on this.

Please try valgrind on your program.  Alternatively, post complete
code that exhibits the heap corruption.

Regards,
Wolfram.