[PATCH 2/2] Document the M_ARENA_* mallopt parameters

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@sourceware.org
Wed Oct 19 07:09:00 GMT 2016


On Wednesday 19 October 2016 12:23 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> I agree. But it's also not what I said ;-). I said "determined according
> to the value of..."

Ahh, I wouldn't have caught that if you hadn't pointed it out.

> Your details following are a little more precise. But I believe Carlos,
> when he wrote the text about how the limit was calculated, deliberately
> chose to be more vague. I'm okay with including this level of detail 
> in the man page, but, if I recall correctly, Carlos wanted to avoid it.

I'll let Carlos take the call on that.  He asked for detail in the glibc
manual, so I'll propose that level and detail for the manual and see
what he thinks.

Siddhesh



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