From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 20:40:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4171106566B for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E5B8FC08 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0IKe3t5054997 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n0IKe2K5054996; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:03 GMT Message-Id: <200901182040.n0IKe2K5054996@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Subject: Re: bin/120084: [boot] loader_conf_files in /boot/loader.conf no longer works [regression] X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:03 -0000 The following reply was made to PR bin/120084; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Luigi Rizzo To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, 20080111.freebsd.org@ab.ote.we.lv Cc: Subject: Re: bin/120084: [boot] loader_conf_files in /boot/loader.conf no longer works [regression] Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:23:14 +0100 this PR can be closed. The handling of loader_conf_files was broken and it depended on the address returned on a realloc (basically, the assignment was ignored if the new value for the variable fit the same buffer used for the old variable). This has been fixed in HEAD back in dec.2008, and in RELENG_7 a week ago cheers luigi