Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 16:18:10 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: phkmalloc and X programs Message-ID: <199510142318.QAA20339@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Oct 95 18:48:35 EDT." <199510142248.SAA14930@irbs.irbs.com>
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>lname is not NULL terminated unless malloc() returns zeroed memory. >I have never seen anything that states that malloc() returns zeroed >memory nor have I seen bzero/memset in the BSD malloc() sources. That's because it is only by accident that xhost works. BSD malloc just happens to have the chunks in a somewhat different order than phkmalloc and the chunk that happens to be returned in the case you've pointed out simply hadn't been previously allocated (so it containis all zeros). Even the manual page for (BSD) malloc says that it returns uninitialized data. Anyway, you're absolutely right - it's a bug in xhost. -DG
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