Re: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: once again, nothing changed. if it wasn't enabled in 3.8, it's not enabled in 3.9 and it's not going to get enabled in 3.A. eghhh... Is this the start of the version naming debate again? :) What was the conclusion from the last time? ;)

Re: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-05-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/2/06, Ed White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:22, Ted Unangst wrote: > > But it seems that this feature was disabled just before shipping 3.8 > > because too many ports were instable. 3.9 should come with it. > > how does it seem this feature was disabled? look at cvs

Re: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-05-02 Thread Ed White
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:22, Ted Unangst wrote: > > But it seems that this feature was disabled just before shipping 3.8 > > because too many ports were instable. 3.9 should come with it. > > how does it seem this feature was disabled? look at cvs log. nothing > was disabled. Disabled = Not en

Re: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-05-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/2/06, Ed White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - When you free an object that is >= 1 page in size, it is actually returned to the system. Attempting to read or write to it after you free is no longer acceptable. That memory is unmapped. You get a SIGSEGV. - For a decade and a bit, we h

Re: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-05-02 Thread Ed White
Dave, I guess the interviewer is talking about this email by Theo: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112475373731469&w=2 where he states: - When you free an object that is >= 1 page in size, it is actually returned to the system. Attempting to read or write to it after you fre

Re: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-04-30 Thread Dunceor
You are aware that the main part of the people reading misc@ also reads undeadly? On 5/1/06, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Article at http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557 > > (excerpt) > > Federico Biancuzzi: I remember that just before releasing 3.8 you had to > disable the new behavior

OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-04-30 Thread Dave Feustel
Article at http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6557 (excerpt) Federico Biancuzzi: I remember that just before releasing 3.8 you had to disable the new behavior of your implementation of malloc()/free() that returned SIGSEGV when accessing a freed area. You had to do this because too many ports were i