Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:21:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, dg@root.com Subject: Re: memory leaks in libc Message-ID: <199808071721.NAA20680@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808071712.KAA29716@bubba.whistle.com> References: <199808070332.XAA17093@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199808071712.KAA29716@bubba.whistle.com>
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<<On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:12:48 -0700 (PDT), Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> said: >> I believe that any program which suffers serious harm from the memory >> leak probably needs to use a different environment-access model. > Yes, until we fix the bug. Then they don't anymore, that's the whole point. No, you've missed the point entirely. *Any program which does enough playing around with the environment to be harmed by this memory leak is using a totally inappropriate interface.* -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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