From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 19 17:53:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA24706 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 17:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itchy.mindspring.com (itchy.mindspring.com [204.180.128.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24701 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 17:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by itchy.mindspring.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA24980; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 20:52:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961020005229.0073f6d8@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 20:52:29 -0400 To: Poul-Henning Kamp From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/db/hash hash_buf.c Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:05 PM 10/19/96 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >It doesn't solve the problem in all cases. A better and more complete >fix would be to add an option to malloc that means "zero on free(3)" >and set this in the programs affected. > >That would be more complete, more general and not make innocent >programs suffer a potentially huge performance hit. Hmmmmm. That's a neat idea. Mmmmmm. (grabs pencil, makes note, tacks it to wall next to random phone numbers). I'll have to remember that, it'll come in handy sometime. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@pobox.com XCOMM "Corrected!" -- Old Amiga tips file \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of Retrocomputing: / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ / kevinneal@bix.com