On Fri, 26 May 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
[1] Purify was one of the coolest products on Solaris, but alas it doesn't seem like they'll ever support Linux. What do you all use to do similar memory verification tests on Linux? Or do you just not?
I'm not aware of anything as good, but there's "memprof" (check for it with "rpm -q"), and I think a few others. Checker is a malloc() & friends implementation that can be used to detect memory errors: http://www.gnu.org/software/checker/checker.html and there's ElectricFence from Bruce Perens: http://www.perens.com/FreeSoftware/ (There's a MailMan related link there are well you might be interested in!) There may be others, and I can't speak to the quality of these as I've not used any of them (yet). memprof and ElectricFence were installed on my Mandrake box without my doing anything about it; I don't know if RedHat installs them on a stock develop box. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>