The reason that netscape and a few other applications crash is because their malloc statments are buggy. It is not a bug in libc5.4.7, but in netscape. However, since this is a problem we are including the old malloc in the libc package, and people who are going to run netscape will have a script that will have netscape use the malloc instead of the normal one in libc5.4.7. However, we do want the libc5.4.7 malloc because it is so much faster from what I have heard, and the libc5.4.7 fixes long standing security bugs.
Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > My installation is up-to-date with unstable. > Since I installed libc5_5.4.7 (and Netscape 3.01), Netscape almost > always crashes on this page: > > http://www.amdahl.com > > probably because of the Java Applet. > > I know this was discussed just recently. It seems the options > are to disable Java in Netscape or downgrade to an older libc. > Are there other options? > > Some questions: > > 1) If I downgrade to an older libc, what happens to other packages > that depend on newer libc versions? > > 2) Doesn't Debian 1.2, just frozen the other day, contain this > libc version? With all the complaints with libc, isn't 1.2 bound > to be poorly received? > > ...RickM... > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
