Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:34:39 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, 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: <6607.942431679@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:12:40 MST." <199911121812.LAA17860@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199911121812.LAA17860@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >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. I can imagine two reactions, neither of which would appear sane to me. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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