Proposed F19 Feature: MEMSTOMP

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Jan 24 19:00:24 UTC 2013


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.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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