Re: a bug of the slab implementation in viengoos?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Da Zheng <address@hidden> writes:

> I recently ported the slab implementation in viengoos to Hurd. It seems that 
> the
> refcount field of hurd_slab isn't initialized when it is created in grow(). 
> here
> is the patch to fix it.

Normally ‘allocate_buffer’ creates an anonymous mapping with ‘mmap’,
which is zeroed on GNU systems (info "(libc) Memory-mapped I/O"), so
that shouldn’t be needed.

Thanks,
Ludo’.