From 93f6aa6bca1621fc5bce8f543e3e0b3a0be01378 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Vlasenko
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:11:01 +0000
Subject: "make bigdata" biggest offender dealt with: xmalloc 16Kb buffer
 instead of keeping it in bss

---
 util-linux/mkfs_minix.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'util-linux/mkfs_minix.c')

diff --git a/util-linux/mkfs_minix.c b/util-linux/mkfs_minix.c
index f0b658d..af19da6 100644
--- a/util-linux/mkfs_minix.c
+++ b/util-linux/mkfs_minix.c
@@ -613,7 +613,8 @@ static void alarm_intr(int alnum)
 static void check_blocks(void)
 {
 	int try, got;
-	static char buffer[BLOCK_SIZE * TEST_BUFFER_BLOCKS];
+	/* buffer[] was the biggest static in entire bbox */
+	char *buffer = xmalloc(BLOCK_SIZE * TEST_BUFFER_BLOCKS);
 
 	currently_testing = 0;
 	signal(SIGALRM, alarm_intr);
@@ -635,6 +636,7 @@ static void check_blocks(void)
 		badblocks++;
 		currently_testing++;
 	}
+	free(buffer);
 	printf("%d bad block(s)\n", badblocks);
 }
 
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