From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jan 1 12:52:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA23103 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA23098 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.dk.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0vfXeD-0003whC; Wed, 1 Jan 97 12:52 PST Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (critter-home [193.162.32.19]) by schizo.dk.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA25495; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:52:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (localhost.phk.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id VAA13809; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:55:06 +0100 (MET) To: J Wunsch cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2347: sysinstall: ppp: recursive call in malloc() In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:20:02 PST." <199701012020.MAA22030@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 21:55:06 +0100 Message-ID: <13807.852152106@critter.dk.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199701012020.MAA22030@freefall.freebsd.org>, J Wunsch writes: > For no known to me reason, sysinstall uses an /etc/malloc.conf > containing the letter "A", meaning it should abort (signal 6) any > program that causes a malloc warning. I put that in, with the intention to remove it before -RELEASE. It should be obvious why :-) We don't need to reproduce this problem, it is far to obvious in the source why it happens and all we have to do to fix it is to rewrite ppp :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.