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Many applications don't work with anything but glibc, so distributions don't use them; because distributions don't use them, applications don't support anything
by daeken 11y ago
Many applications don't work with anything but glibc, so distributions don't use them; because distributions don't use them, applications don't support anything but glibc.
- tomjakubowski 11y agoThe number of applications that rely on malloc/free being multithreaded fork safe, like glibc's allocator, is astounding. Off the top of my head, any application that uses glib and g_spawn_* is quite unportable for this reason.