On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:07:04 +0100, I wrote: > Fedora 12 with LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0 EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0=1, what is > more likely that these are false positives or real bugs? It's hard to find GNOME/GTK apps that don't crash. One that works fine in efence is "gnome-about". Many non-GUI tools also pass. procps's w doesn't, and that's not a false positive: $ w Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> Segmentation fault (core dumped) ==> setlocale() usage bug, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/548711 $ eog Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> Segmentation fault (core dumped) ==> in ORBit corba-any.c once more $ evince Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> ElectricFence Aborting: free(91dcd80): address not from malloc(). Illegal instruction (core dumped) ==> in glib2 gslice.c once more $ emacs Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> ElectricFence Aborting: realloc(84203b8, 2037): address not from malloc(). Fatal error (4)Illegal instruction (core dumped) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
