Speaking of ksh

[gwyn at brl-smoke.UUCP]

In article <894 at xyzzy.UUCP> meissner at xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>In a similar note, I wish that programs would stop replacing
>internals of the library, or at least make it an option to
>use the default routines.

Hear, hear!

At the very least, they should let the C library operate the way it
was designed, and use different names for the application's special
versions of things like malloc().  UNIX C library malloc()
implementations that I have seen are careful to allow other uses of
the heap space, so a separate allocator can do its thing without
interfering with malloc() (and vice-versa).