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To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: tail dumps core 
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:50:39 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: Neither of these are portable unless the array being cleared is
: composed of characters.  There is almost never any reason to use
: calloc(3).

The only portible way to fix this is with a for loop...

Warner