From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 23 17: 5:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2334637B400 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:05:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2O15Qod026550; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 20:05:26 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020323163457.B22058@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20020323155500.A18666@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020323.172335.39636005.imp@village.org> <20020323163457.B22058@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 20:05:25 -0500 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "M. Warner Losh" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: turning off malloc's AJ by default Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:34 PM -0800 3/23/02, David wrote: >On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:23:35PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > > I think we should keep AJ enabled until at least DP2. It has > > found bugs in the past, and I suspect that a lot of new code > > is going in between now and then. > >Robert Watson feels that AJ caught bugs early on, but now only >catches buts in 3rd party programs. As FreeBSD developers, >3rd party code cannot be our primary concern. The recent bug I fixed in login processing (the LOGIN-FAILURES message) was a problem which was made obvious due to the J. I wouldn't mind if the A was turned off, but the J still seems useful to me. (disclaimer: I used to work on an operating system which *always* did something similar to J...) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message