Package: electric-fence Version: 2.1.14 Severity: minor Tags: patch
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man3/libefence.3.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages electric-fence depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
--- - 2005-05-23 03:19:44.137118000 -0400 +++ /tmp/libefence3.gz.21799 2005-05-23 03:19:44.000000000 -0400 @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ .TP EF_FREE_WIPES By default, Electric Fence releases memory without changing the content -of the released memory block. IF EF_FREE_WIPES is non-zero, the sofware +of the released memory block. IF EF_FREE_WIPES is non-zero, the software will fill the memory block with 0xbd values before it is released. This makes it easier to trigger illegal use of released memory, and eaiser to understand why a memory access failed during gdb runs.
