H. Guémar wrote: >> This is useful enough that it is worth considering for inclusion > in /etc/profile. > > during development cycle: +1 > for stable/production release: not so much (users would hate us for that) It's definitely not suitable for everyone. My suggestion was intended to be provocative ;-) Eric Sandeen had a nice idea: enable it for rawhide, say by testing for "Rawhide" in /etc/redhat-release. I propose (seriously, now) to add this to /etc/profile, or to some always-sourced file like /etc/profile.d/glibc.sh: # Enable glibc's malloc perturbing feature in Rawhide. # http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11429.html read _f _r _n _code_name < /etc/redhat-release && case $_code_name in *Rawhide*) export MALLOC_PERTURB_=$((RANDOM % 255 + 1)) ;; esac Alternatively, if we should handle the case of a missing /etc/redhat-release, and want to avoid generating a diagnostic about it: if test -r /etc/redhat-release; then # Enable glibc's malloc perturbing feature in Rawhide. # http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11429.html read _f _r _n _code_name < /etc/redhat-release && case $_code_name in *Rawhide*) export MALLOC_PERTURB_=$((RANDOM % 255 + 1)) ;; esac fi -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel