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To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib malloc.3 
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:12:40 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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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


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