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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:18:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG (Joseph Koshy)
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PRs/fixes to be merged to -stable?
Message-ID:  <199810301818.KAA16364@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810301012.CAA13918@hub.freebsd.org> from Joseph Koshy at "Oct 30, 98 02:12:13 am"

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Joseph Koshy writes:
> If you have any PRs (or other fixes in -current) that you would like to 
> see merged into 2.2-STABLE, please drop me a note (with a cc to
> committers@freebsd.org).

Thanks for asking.. how about PR#7923 (scandir(3) fix)?

The problem is actually worse than just a memory leak.. if
you are scanning the /proc filesystem (which can change sizes
rapidly), it can cause core dumps (guess how I figured that out :-)

-Archie

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