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Date:      Sat, 12 Oct 2002 18:11:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk disk.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021012181035.44458D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021012220432.GA95038@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 03:01:57PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > kris        2002/10/12 15:01:57 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     lib/libdisk          disk.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Zero memory after malloc.  This stops sysinstall from dumping core
> >   during disk probing with malloc debugging enabled.
> 
> I have no idea how this went for so long without being noticed. 
> sysinstall wouldn't even start with the default malloc settings. 

That is odd -- I use sysinstall with relative frequency for disk labeling
and prep.  I've also had a number of coworkers install -CURRENT using
recent snapshots and they haven't run into it...

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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