You can set an environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_ to influence the behaviour of glibc 0 -> no error message program continues 1 -> error message, program continues 2 -> no error message, kills program 3 -> error message, kills program
Since the message only occured with my two programs at exit time, I set the environment var to 0 HTH Anthon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
