From a82252ad479b8e89ebe30a98e01f080ff4e1138d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sthen <> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:28:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] first cut at documenting the change to malloc doing a partial 'junk' by default and the new 'j' option to disable this; ok jmc@ --- src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 index 854d698f..5ac241c9 100644 --- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 +++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.76 2014/04/22 15:02:16 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.77 2014/04/30 23:28:05 sthen Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 22 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 30 2014 $ .Dt MALLOC 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ Currently junk is bytes of 0xd0 when allocating; this is pronounced .Dq Duh . \&:-) Freed chunks are filled with 0xdf. +.It Cm j +.Dq Don't Junk . +By default, small chunks are always junked, and the first part of pages +is junked after free. +This flag disables the default so that no junking is performed. .It Cm P .Dq Move allocations within a page. Allocations larger than half a page but smaller than a page