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[Python-Dev] Activating pymalloc

[Python-Dev] Activating pymallocMartin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
14 Mar 2002 18:54:50 +0100
"Tim Peters" <tim@zope.com> writes:

> Martin, you were concerned earlier about the possibilities for tricking
> pymalloc into crashing the system, given that its flavor of free() takes a
> careful but still probabilistic guess about who (pymalloc or "the system")
> owns the memory being returned.  Are you no longer concerned abou that?

You convinced me last time that this won't be an issue. I think you
even offered some gift in case somebody runs into the problem in real
life, although I forgot what that gift was :-)

I think some action needs to be taken: either the code needs to be
removed from Python for that reason, or it should be activated. I
doubt that the problem (if there is a problem) will get addressed from
the code just sitting in the CVS. Trusting that the problem is *not*
real, I favour activating the code. It still remains an option to
turn it off should somebody be worried.

Regards,
Martin



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