[Pvfs2-developers] Odd problem

[Walter Ligon]

Hello crew,

whilst working with a branch (not the trunk) I came upon an odd bug. 
During server initialization in the function lebf_initialize() the 
function creates a dummy request and encodes it over and over again, 
once for each request type in order to discover the max size.  This 
dummy request is never zero'd between iterations.  I found that in some 
instances this caused a seg fault - but changing almost anything might 
undo it.  Same code compiled/linked a different way may or may not fail. 
  Simply putting a memset() in the loop fixes it, as far as I can tell.

Anyone know why we don't zero the request, or object to adding that? 
Seems to have no performance impact since it is in initialization.

Walt