At 08:01 PM 12/18/98 , Paul Newhouse wrote:
>In reference to DUX Dave Cherkus <cherkus@homerun.unimaster.com> writes:
>
>>It's malloc also has debug modes that do auditing, leak detection,
>>internal consistency checking and even a mode where virtual addresses
>>are never reused and are always unmapped after being freed so any 
>>access to that address will fault.  This is great for finding use
>>of pointers after freeing the memory.
>
>Sure, in a debug kernel.  I was talking about the performance kernel 
>clients use in the field.  The "use after freeing" bugs NEVER show up
>in pre-release testing.  *8^)))

Actually not.  You patch some flags in the kernel and reboot.  No
kernel reboots needed.
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