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Date:      Fri, 21 May 2010 15:26:01 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0
Message-ID:  <20100521202601.GB8866@dan.emsphone.com>
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In the last episode (May 22), Anoop Kumar Narayanan said:
> I think glibc uses asynchronous free, as in it doesn't free the memory
> immediately.  So even though the memory is free'd its still part of the
> process's address space but present in the free pool and so it doesn't
> crash.

FreeBSD doesn't use glibc, so that doesn't apply here :)

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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