FedoraCore 3:glibc-error

The new glibc version included in fedora core 3 does stringent memory checks.
Thats why with many applications, any failure in sanity checking results in the program getting killed, but this isn't the only bahavious that is possible. We can set the MALLOC_CHECK_ variable to get different behavious as and when they are encontered. I use MALLOC_CHECK_=1, which prints the error to stderr but doesn't kill the program.

See the Fedora Core release notes for further details.
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/