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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:21:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, dg@root.com
Subject:   Re: memory leaks in libc
Message-ID:  <199808071721.NAA20680@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199808071712.KAA29716@bubba.whistle.com>
References:  <199808070332.XAA17093@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199808071712.KAA29716@bubba.whistle.com>

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<<On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:12:48 -0700 (PDT), Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> said:

>> I believe that any program which suffers serious harm from the memory
>> leak probably needs to use a different environment-access model.

> Yes, until we fix the bug. Then they don't anymore, that's the whole point.

No, you've missed the point entirely.  *Any program which does enough
playing around with the environment to be harmed by this memory leak
is using a totally inappropriate interface.*

-GAWollman

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