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- From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD Bug in wd.c
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.173714.14778@gateway.novell.com>
- Keywords: wd.c malloc bzero
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- References: <1992Jul30.024553.2340@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:37:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.024553.2340@linus.mitre.org> wheeler@heckle.mitre.org (Brien L. Wheeler) writes:
- >I sent this bug report off to Lynne Jolitz tonight. Some non-initialized
- >memory in wd.c prevents my machine from warm-rebooting. Trivial context
- >diff attached.
-
- This is one of the fixes in Chris's (CGD's) fixes in the unofficial
- directory on agate.berkeley.edu. The same problem applies to some portables
- on initial boot, due to not clearing memory on power-on.
-
- -- Terry
-