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authoryasuoka <>2025-06-03 14:15:53 +0000
committeryasuoka <>2025-06-03 14:15:53 +0000
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Again. Make exit(), fclose(), fflush(), and freopen() comply with
POSIX-2008 requirements for setting the underlying file position when flushing read-mode streams, and make an fseek()-after-fflush() not change the underlying file position. This commit fixes some minor problems of the previous. previous diff from guenther Much testing, review, assistence form tb@ ok tb@ millert@ for the previous ok asou
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diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index 74e89d7fde..72b82f77ab 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
31.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
32.\" 32.\"
33.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.145 2025/05/27 12:40:37 schwarze Exp $ 33.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.146 2025/06/03 14:15:53 yasuoka Exp $
34.\" 34.\"
35.Dd $Mdocdate: May 27 2025 $ 35.Dd $Mdocdate: June 3 2025 $
36.Dt MALLOC 3 36.Dt MALLOC 3
37.Os 37.Os
38.Sh NAME 38.Sh NAME
@@ -372,9 +372,18 @@ Use with
372to get a verbose dump of malloc's internal state. 372to get a verbose dump of malloc's internal state.
373.It Cm X 373.It Cm X
374.Dq xmalloc . 374.Dq xmalloc .
375Rather than return failure to handle out-of-memory conditions gracefully, 375Rather than return failure,
376.Xr abort 3 376.Xr abort 3
377the program with a diagnostic message on stderr. 377the program with a diagnostic message on stderr.
378It is the intention that this option be set at compile time by
379including in the source:
380.Bd -literal -offset indent
381extern char *malloc_options;
382malloc_options = "X";
383.Ed
384.Pp
385Note that this will cause code that is supposed to handle
386out-of-memory conditions gracefully to abort instead.
378.It Cm < 387.It Cm <
379.Dq Halve the cache size . 388.Dq Halve the cache size .
380Decrease the size of the free page cache by a factor of two. 389Decrease the size of the free page cache by a factor of two.