Hi Christian,

Christian Ludwig wrote on Thu, May 03, 2018 at 04:57:55PM +0200:

> The 'S' flag in malloc.conf(5) is a short-hand for several other flags.
> Explain which flags it sets exactly.

Your diff is *not* OK.

These details are intentionally undocumented
because they change often.

This question was discussed multiple times in the past,
please check the archives.

Yours,
  Ingo


> --- a/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5
> +++ b/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5
> @@ -97,7 +97,15 @@ is called, even if the initial allocation was big enough.
>  .\"for all operations.
>  .\"Consult the source for this one.
>  .It Cm S
> -Enable all options suitable for security auditing.
> +Enable all flags suitable for security auditing.
> +This is short-hand for the flags
> +.Cm C ,
> +.Cm F ,
> +.Cm G
> +and
> +.Cm J .
> +It also disables the free page cache, see
> +.Cm < .
>  .It Cm U
>  .Dq Free unmap .
>  Enable use after free protection for larger allocations.

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