Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Mar 1998 07:47:38 -0500 | From | Jim Nance <> | Subject | Re: Linux and Ultima Online |
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Hi All, I delete a lot of email by looking at the subject, and I remember trashed several messages with the subject of this post. Then I read a few and realized that some of them were personal emails to me concerning a prior post I had made to linux-kernel. First, I feel like an idiot, and would like to appoligize to anyone who does not get their email answered. I always try to answer personal email. Secondly, several of these emails were asking for pointers to the Electric Fence package I had mentioned, so I thought I would put that information here.
Electric Fence was written by Bruce Perens, and its purpose is to make programs which incorrectly use allocated memory crash sooner rather than later. It can be very useful for tracking down things like using free()ed memory or closing file descriptors multiple times. There is an online manual page at:
http://lune.csc.liv.ac.uk/hppd/hpux/Languages/ElectricFence-2.0.5/man.html
I know Red Hat includes Electric Fence in both their 4.2 and 5.0 distributions. The package for 5.0 is called ElectricFence-2.0.5-5 so you should be able to get either the source or the binary by hunting around on ftp.redhat.com. Try giving their ftp server the command:
site exec locate ElectricFence
Hope this helps,
Jim
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