Vijay Bellur <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are a lot of places where we make an implicit assumption that > GF_CALLOC and the likes memset the memory area to zero. The problem I refer to is that on current Linux systems, pthread_mutex_lock() will work on a zero'ed area where pthread_mutex_init() was not called. That behavior should not be taken for granted in the future on Linux, and it is likely to break on any non Linux system. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@xxxxxxxxxx