[Bug manual/23015] MALLOC_MMAP_PERTURB_ doesn't seem likely to be the environment variable controlling M_PERTURB

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23015

--- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Martin Dorey from comment #0)
> https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Malloc-Tunable-Parameters.
> html#Malloc-Tunable-Parameters says:
> 
> > M_PERTURB
> ...
> > This parameter can also be set for the process at startup by setting the environment variable MALLOC_MMAP_PERTURB_ to the desired value.
> 
> I think the "MMAP_" there wants removing.
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Memory-Allocation-
> Tunables.html has it right.

Agreed. See also mallopt(3) man page, were the correct name (MALLOC_PERTURB_)
is used.

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