>On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Lisa Bogar wrote: > >> By the way ... Sun will NOT be producing a patch for zlib. Its Freeware >> so they don't patch those. I checked with Sun when the zlib problem >> surfaced earlier this week. You should not count on overriding the old >> version of zlib, but instead uninstall and then reinstall the new pkg. > >This is a bit annoying, as zlib lives in the SUNWzlib and SUNWzlibx >packages that come on the Software Disc 2 of Solaris 8. Both the >package names and locations would normally imply it was supported. THEY ARE SUPPORTED PACKAGES. Lisa is blowing smoke. We are working on patches; the second copy of zlib (zlibx) is an historical accident because it was unsure zlib would make Solaris 8 in /usr/lib. Furthermore, it appears that our libc's malloc catches double frees in several ways; that may also lower the risk somewhat. (We have 10 more malloc libraries, I think, so beware) Casper
