From owner-cvs-all Sat Oct 12 15:12:28 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6DE37B401; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F1D43EB7; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g9CMBpOo044915; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 18:11:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 18:11:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Kris Kennaway Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk disk.c In-Reply-To: <20021012220432.GA95038@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message