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SubjectRe: Buffer corruption (2.1.81)

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:

> I wish there were a way to track down this sort of problem in a
> systematic way, other than just hoping that continued code review and
> improvement will catch the error.

Hmmm, locate the dentry list in a read-only segment, remarking it as r/w
whenever we need to manipulate its contents? Slow but thorough. Same for
buffers?

Patches like this and the memory leak tester should be (relatively hidden)
config options.

Chris


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