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To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Overcommit and calloc()
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 20 Jul 1999 12:45:56 +0200
In-Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney's message of "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 03:19:08 -0700"
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John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav scribbled this message on Jul 20:
> > When I allocate memory, I usually intend to put something in it.
> > There's always the odd struct sockaddr_in which I bzero() before
> > filling it in, but they're usually on the stack.
> and even then, I don't believe in filling sockaddr_in w/ bzero, I
> believe in using getsockaddr on it so that you actually get all the
> fields filled out properly...

See? One less reason to use bzero() / calloc() :)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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