Hi,
We are moving away from the /etc/malloc.conf symbolic link to a new sysctl:
$ sysctl vm.malloc_conf
vm.malloc_conf=C
This will allow unveiled and chrooted processes to access the malloc
options without having to do anything special in the code or chroot
dir.
As I often get this question: for some extra protection, use C or CJ,
accept some performance impact. For development, bug hunting and/or
extra securty use S, with more performance impact.
Note that with default options, malloc already has quite some
protection features.
Upcoming snapshots will contain this.
-Otto
