efence patch for darwin

[Reini Urban]

2011/4/25 Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>:
> I use Valgrind too. Electric Fence has surely paid off for the few days I
> put into it. Don't hold anything up for this.

efence is so much simplier than valgrind.
Of course valgrind is much simplier to use, but the simple usecase
with gdb being right at the point of the failure outweighs
its memory consumption.

But we have port already, sorry :)

Thanks

> On 04/25/2011 06:57 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>>> On 2011-4-25 19:34 , Reini Urban wrote:
>>>> Attached simple patch makes electric-fence work on darwin
>>>>
>>>> @macports-dev: sorry, I cannot provide a package yet,
>>>> because I just bought this tiny macbook air and need some
>>>> time to get used to it. I also prefer sh over tcl.
>>>> But a pkg should be straightforward.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We already have a port, apparently:
>>>
>>> <https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/devel/electric-fence>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You already have valgrind, which has always been better than ElectricFence
>> has ever been at diagnosing memory problems.
>>
>> Is there really a need to carry ElectricFence in MacPorts?
>>
>> Please note that I well understand ElectricFence's history, have used it
>> many
>> times and it has saved my butt, and no disrespect whatsoever is inteded
>> to the efforts involved in patching ElectricFence to Just Work with
>> MacPorts.
>>
>> But it *is* the 21st century and I most definitely am interested
>> in seeing Lion sandboxing, just like everyone else is waiting.
-- 
Reini Urban