Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:54:07 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/usbd usbd.c Message-ID: <200007162254.PAA26426@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> of "Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:48:53 PDT." <200007162248.PAA09181@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> :> Correct an additional off-by-one bug and buffer overflow. A malloc()
> :> was being made one byte too short, and the string assembled in it was no
t
> :> null terminated. The string was passed to regcomp() so it never matched
> :> anything in /etc/usbd.conf. This is the cause of usbd not working for t
he
> :> last few days.. The new malloc.conf default of AJ triggered this.
> :
> :Oh god, did you have to say that? Now phk will be INSUFFERABLE for
> :weeks. :-)
> :
> :- Jordan
>
> AJ ? Guys, 'J' as a default to malloc.conf is a disaster for performance
.
> There are many programs which allocate large buffers and only use
> small portions of them. We *CANNOT* ship with 'J' as a default
> for malloc.
>
> 'A', ok. 'AH' is even better. 'AJ'? no way.
AJ is only going to be on for the development cycle. Once we hit -stable
and/or the leadup to -release it will go back off.
Incidently, I'd half like $MALLOC_OPTIONS set to 'aj' exported from
Makefile so that the builds don't take as long.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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