Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 20:52:29 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/db/hash hash_buf.c Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961020005229.0073f6d8@mindspring.com>
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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
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