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From: david@kdbarto.org (David)
Subject: [TUHS] Did realloc ever zero the new memory?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:52:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E798E102-2C50-4AB2-92CC-188D05AA951F@kdbarto.org> (raw)

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I’ve just had a discussion with my boss about this and he claimed that it did at one point and I said it hasn’t in all the unix versions I’ve ever played with (v6, v7, sys III, V, BSD 2, 3, 4, SunOS and Solaris).

My question to this illustrious group is: Did any Unix or Unix like OS ever zero fill on realloc?

	David




             reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10 19:52 David [this message]
2015-09-10 20:10 ` Jim Capp
2015-09-10 20:21   ` Larry McVoy
2015-09-10 20:22     ` David
2015-09-10 20:27       ` Larry McVoy
2015-09-10 20:29         ` David
2015-09-10 20:41     ` Clem Cole
2015-09-11  6:30       ` arnold
2015-09-11 14:36         ` Clem Cole
2015-09-11  0:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-11 15:41 Norman Wilson
2015-09-11 16:44 ` scj
     [not found] <1441931343.25526.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
2015-09-12  5:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-12  6:47   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-09-13  0:32 Doug McIlroy
2015-09-13  1:15 ` Larry McVoy
2015-09-13  6:09   ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-14  3:20     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-09-17  4:42       ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2015-09-13  7:06   ` markus schnalke
2015-09-13 10:32     ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-13 11:06       ` markus schnalke
2015-09-13 12:13     ` Derek Fawcus
2015-09-13 13:45       ` John Cowan
2015-09-13  1:30 ` Random832
2015-09-13  2:29   ` Charles Anthony

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