corrupted double-linked list

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:31:23PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I seem to remember a while back a way to stop glibc from throwing the
> above error.  Problem is, I can't remember what that invocation is,
> and google just overwhelms me with hits it would take me past Xmas to
> get through.

Um. I can accept that glibc is detecting a "double free()" but not that
it detects a corrupted doubly-linked list. Unless glibc has gotten much smarter
about code analysis. :-)

> Anyone recall how to tell glibc not to crash the program?  (The new
> googleearth is doing this).

I think what you're remembering is LD_ASSUME_KERNEL:

http://people.redhat.com/drepper/assumekernel.html

Kurt
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