freebsd-ports/sysutils/memtest/files/patch-aa
Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira 25f20d36e4 Improve man page documentation on memstest 'all' argument and add
a run time warning about it as well

Prompted by:	Denis N. Peplin <info@volginfo.ru>
Approved by:	portmgr (self & no objections)
2002-12-23 11:07:53 +00:00

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--- memtest.c.orig Thu Dec 19 13:43:09 2002
+++ memtest.c Thu Dec 19 13:42:49 2002
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
@@ -249,6 +250,10 @@
if (!strcmp (argv[i], "all"))
{
membytes = 4095 << MB;
+ fprintf (stderr, "%s: ATTENTION: option '%s' might cause a segmentation"
+ " fault crash on %s because it will try to test as much"
+ " as 4G of memory even if your system does not have as much"
+ " memory.\n", argv[0], argv[i], argv[0]);
continue;
}
t = (ui32) strtol (argv[i], &endptr, 0);