From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Did realloc ever zero the new memory?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:13:41 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1509111005190.42450@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E798E102-2C50-4AB2-92CC-188D05AA951F@kdbarto.org>
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, David wrote:
> 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).
Only V6? I did V5... Tell that to the young kids of today, and they
won't believe you.
> My question to this illustrious group is: Did any Unix or Unix like OS
> ever zero fill on realloc?
Never in my lifetime, which meant that you got inspect someone's private
messages and there's someone knocking at my door and
#$%^&*\{{{
NO CARRIER
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-11 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-10 19:52 David
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 [this message]
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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