Memcached crashing on FreeBSD

[Jacob Coby]

Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
> 
> But look at what happens right after that:
> 
>     /*
>      * Sensitive processes, somewhat arbitrarily defined here as setuid,
>      * setgid, root and wheel cannot afford to have malloc mistakes.
>      */
>     if (issetugid() || getuid() == 0 || getgid() == 0)
> 	    malloc_abort = 1;
> 
> Somewhat arbitrarily, and completely undocumented.
> 
> So, Jason, you need to try and run memcached as a non-root user *and* with
> the _malloc_options change. If even that will fail with the same problem,
> we'll be back at square one.

If that's the case, should memcached at least show a warning at startup 
if run as root?  Should it refuse to run as root?

-- 
-Jacob