On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:12:20AM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:36:45PM +0000, morriss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Introduce an optional (ep_ and se_) memory scrubber. When activated (export
> >> WIRESHARK_DEBUG_SCRUB_MEMORY to turn it on) this function initializes all
> >> allocated memory to 0xBADDCAFE and all freed memory to 0xDEADBEEF. (Of course
> >> the allocation functions like ep_alloc0() re-initialize the allocated memory
> >> back to 0.)
> >
> > There seems to be an increasing nunmber of variables that ssem to be lacking
> > documentation. How about adding them to the manpage(s)?
>
> These environment variables are targeted mainly at developers looking
> at/debugging memory issues. Do they really belong in the
> (user-oriented) man pages?
I don't like undocumented command line options - and the environment vars
are something very similar. So in my opinion: Yes :-)
Ciao
Joerg
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Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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