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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/xenconsoled: Initialise pointers
 before trying to use them
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:28:28 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 07, Andrew Cooper wrote:

> This is a regression introduced by
> 
> "Switch from select() to poll() in xenconsoled's IO loop."
>   hg c/s 26405:7359c3122c5d
>   git cc5434c933153c4b8812d1df901f8915c22830a8
> 
> which results in reliable segfaults during VM power operations.

What about switching to calloc(3), given that many members are zeroed
anyway?

Olaf