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From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Bug in wd.c
Message-ID: <1992Jul30.173714.14778@gateway.novell.com>
Keywords: wd.c malloc bzero
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:37:14 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.024553.2340@linus.mitre.org> wheeler@heckle.mitre.org (Brien L. Wheeler) writes:
>I sent this bug report off to Lynne Jolitz tonight.  Some non-initialized
>memory in wd.c prevents my machine from warm-rebooting.  Trivial context
>diff attached.

	This is one of the fixes in Chris's (CGD's) fixes in the unofficial
directory on agate.berkeley.edu.  The same problem applies to some portables
on initial boot, due to not clearing memory on power-on.

					-- Terry