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To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A.
    Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
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Subject: Re: Ack! Help, Andrey! I'm having troubles in libdialog! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 1995 16:15:59 +0300."
             <IqFgWdmCA4@ache.dialup.demos.ru> 
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 05:36:48 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Well, can you write very minimal example when this bug still shown
> and send it to me? Besides of it here thoughts so far:

I'm about to go to sleep (now it's only 3 hours away till wakeup! :(
:( ) but I can when I wake up.  Alternately, it's an easy thing to
reproduce this with sysinstall itself!

Just check out a copy of the *2.1* version of sysinstall, build it
with debugging, and go to the configuration/package menu and select
the "All" category.  You'll see the problem quickly enough!

> since checklist/menu mallocs all needed things dynamically,
> I suspect that some malloc memory corruption can be involved here.
> Maybe malloc with EXTRA_SANITY will helps too.

This is in 2.1..  Poul-Henning's malloc isn't a factor here! :(

					Jordan