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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:02:00 -0600
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/vipw vipw.c
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On Monday, 25 October 1999 at  2:46:59 -0700, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> sheldonh    1999/10/25 02:46:59 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     usr.sbin/vipw        vipw.c
>   Log:
>   Do not rely on malloc() to zero-fill allocated memory, since it is
>   not documented as doing so.  This fixes a potential segmentation
>   violation.

For performance reasons, I'd strongly hope that malloc() doesn't clear
memory.

Greg
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