Re: fopen/malloc MT bug

[Ulrich Drepper]

Wojciech Piechowski <address@hidden> writes:

> It may be very difficult to write a test program to show the problem
> without mcheck, so I used it. Is there anyone who can authoritatively say
> or show that mcheck is not thread-safe() ? (authors here :-?) If yes, then
> why I no longer have my memory clobbered even without mcheck?

Just look at the source code.  There is a lot of changing of global
variables without any locking.  Don't use mcheck in multi-threaded
applications.

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