[Bug 185225] New: Uninformative setting of MALLOC_CHECK_ in startkde

[Mark van ROssum]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185225

           Summary: Uninformative setting of MALLOC_CHECK_ in startkde
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: mvanross at inf.ed.ac.uk


Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

In startkde Malloc_check_ is set to 2, which means that any malloc errors will
result in aborting the program.
This setting also applies then to any program called from konsole.

I and others spent substantial time debugging programmes that did not run for
this reason and aborted without any message.

I wonder if it is not better to set it to 1, which means that an error message
is produced.
The current setting seems over-cautious.

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