Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:12:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib malloc.3 Message-ID: <199911121812.LAA17860@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:04:57 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911121104430.85606-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911121104430.85606-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911121104430.85606-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> Bill Fumerola writes: : > Go to a bit more trouble to make it absolutely clear that malloc(3) : > does not zero the allocated memory. : : Unlike OpenBSD, which does. Ewww. Checking the code, it appears that you can force it to do so, but the same is true of FreeBSD. I can just imagine Theo's reaction to someone trying to commit the a change which would make malloc always bzero the buffer returned. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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