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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jc@irbs.com, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: phkmalloc and X programs
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>> lname is not NULL terminated unless malloc() returns zeroed memory.

>Not even then, unless the memory is uniformly overallocated, and the
>overallocated portion is zeroed as well as the requested portion.

>Looks like the malloc(namelen) should be a calloc(namelen + 1).

Is it already time for more lessons on the uselessness of calloc() :-).

Bruce