* Carlos O'Donell: > On 12/22/2015 02:56 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> I'm still not quite clear at this point: does glibc officially >> guarantee malloc() and friends as "MT-fork-safe"? > > Unofficially yes. We have tons of code in malloc to handle this. But only if fork is not called from a signal handler (in case this isn't obvious).