So far I've only noticed it via a test, but everyone uses *printf, and malloc is implicated due to recent arena-related changes: malloc deadlock makes *printf hang http://bugzilla.redhat.com/753601 With glibc-2.14.90-15.2.x86_64 (f16-testing and rawhide), this hangs: ( ulimit -v 10000; env printf %20000000f 0 ) Hah! As I was writing this, I noticed a new glibc commit. http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5fb313cb7b7e692fd4684916aaa98e03ec7e8b6 Thanks for the quick fix, Andreas! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel