Re: [PATCH] Allow syslogd to accept multiple configuration files

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> Do you happen to know why the code calloc's the struct filed's with 1's?
> I didn't do any investigation but that's seems like an odd pattern.

calloc(1, sizeof(*f)) returns an array of 1 element of size sizeof(*f)
that is pre-zeroed.  It's the userland equivalent of
malloc(sizeof(*f), ..., M_ZERO).