From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:01:05 GMT
Subject: Re: My git repo is broken, how to fix it ?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703221257020.18328@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703220931120.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

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.


Nicolas