From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] thornbird (another xscreensaver hack)
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:45:53 -0400
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>I don't believe there is any requirement in the
>C standard (although I haven't checked) for the returned memory to
>be zeroed. A check of the 2 non-Plan 9 systems I have handy (Linux,
>Irix) show one will zero the memory and one won't.

Oops. I was confounded by the cursor control formatting when I
did 'man malloc' on the Linux system - it doesn't clear memory
either.