On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 08:07:01PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

> Matthew Mondor wrote:
> > It uses a magic "cookie" which each special system structures which can
> 
> With option DEBUG, kernel fills any free(9)d kernel memory
> with 0xdeadbeef pattern. This helps to track down 'memory use after
> free' and 'use unitialized memory'.

Yes indeed, and similar techniques used at other kernel locations could
possibly be useful