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Date:      Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:59:22 +0400
From:      Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        joelh@gnu.org, fenner@parc.xerox.com, peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... 
Message-ID:  <199806202159.BAA01831@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:02:49 -0000." <199806202002.NAA17957@usr02.primenet.com> 

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> > If, however, you don't like our malloc's current implementation, and
> > think that errno should be saved and restored across a successful
> > call, and that the lost cycles would be worthwhile, then diffs would
> > be perfectly welcome, I'm sure.

Too late. Peter has committed this change several days ago.

> 
> Since the malloc.conf file is unnecessarily being looked for in the
> printf case (since ld.so already caused it to be looked for, and didn't
> find it), I think the redundant call to llok for it is certainly worth
> removing.

You have repeated this misinformation at least 10th times, I think. 
malloc.conf looked up only on first call to malloc(). ld.so probably 
call malloc() from the C library quite rare.

Dima



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