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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Alexander Litvinov <litvinov2004@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: My git repo is broken, how to fix it ?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:10:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703221006360.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703221257020.18328@xanadu.home>



On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > I can't really say whether there are other problems too - electric fence 
> > has a few bugs in that it considers zero-length allocations to be 
> > "probably a bug" and aborts. This makes some of the tests fail with 
> > efence, when re_compile_internal wants to allocate a zero-length object.
> 
> You can tell it not to abort on zero-length allocations by setting the 
> EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0 environment variable to 1.

Ahh,that gets me further, but then it bombs out on the added error 
messages. Is there something for that braindamage too?

(if it at least tested it with "isatty()" or something I'd understand it, 
as it is, it has made my life miserable in the past too.. I like efence, 
but bruce seems to think his ego is more important than the program 
you're debugging.)

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-22 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-28  4:36 My git repo is broken, how to fix it ? Alexander Litvinov
2007-02-28  4:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 11:54   ` Alexander Litvinov
2007-02-28 16:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 19:12       ` Alex Riesen
2007-03-19 13:32       ` Alexander Litvinov
2007-03-19 15:20         ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]           ` <200703201013.39169.litvinov2004@gmail.com>
2007-03-20  5:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-20  6:55               ` Alexander Litvinov
2007-03-20  7:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-20 15:23                 ` Nicolas Pitre
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703200832150.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703200836490.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]     ` <200703210956.50018.litvinov2004@gmail.com>
2007-03-22 15:58       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 16:34         ` Nicolas Pitre
     [not found]       ` <200703211024.04740.litvinov2004@gmail.com>
2007-03-22 16:17         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 16:29           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 16:48             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 17:01               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-22 17:10                 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-03-22 17:28                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-22 22:13                   ` Jeff King
2007-03-23  0:25                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-23  0:42                       ` Bill Lear
2007-03-23  0:51                       ` Jeff King
2007-03-22 20:31               ` [PATCH] git-apply: Do not free the wrong buffer when we convert the data for writeout Junio C Hamano
2007-03-22 20:55                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-23  3:55                   ` Alexander Litvinov
2007-03-23  3:40               ` My git repo is broken, how to fix it ? Alexander Litvinov
2007-03-22 17:12             ` Johannes Sixt
2021-06-06 17:27 B
2021-06-06 17:28 B
2021-12-25  8:30 Joseph Mitchell
2021-12-26  0:48 ` Lemuria
2023-05-29 18:57 ross thomas

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