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Re: malloc question



On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 09:54:23AM +0530, Sharad Joshi wrote:
> If applications are ill behaved, do we need to change the kernel sources,
> or is it better to fix the applications?

malloc(3) is not implemented in the kernel. All kernel interfaces are
in man section 2. libc stuff is in section 3.

brk(2) is the kernel interface, which remains unchanged.

	-Arun