Proposed F19 Feature: MEMSTOMP

[Bill Nottingham]

Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said: 
> Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> said:
> > Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) said: 
> > > The MEMSTOMP code utilizes GPLV2+ and LGPL3 code. The GPLV2+ code is limited 
> > > to the backtrace code which is not thread safe and may need to be 
> > > disabled/rewritten. 
> > 
> > I assume this could be done as a system-wide LD_PRELOAD if desired?
> 
> I would guess that "the backtrace code which is not thread safe" would
> mean you couldn't safely do it system-wide.

Well, it's already killing the process at that point - I assumed he meant
that the backtrace would be unreliable in the presence of threads.

Bill