Re: My git repo is broken, how to fix it ?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mar 22, 2007, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703221006360.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703221257020.18328@xanadu.home>

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> 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