From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jan 1 17:31:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA07109 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:31:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA07102 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA19423; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:31:39 -0800 (PST) To: J Wunsch cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.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 17:31:37 -0800 Message-ID: <19408.852168697@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. Not sysinstall - /usr/src/release/Makefile plonks one down in the MFS filesystem from the release.8 rule. Poul-Henning added this, and maybe *he* can explain his thoughts in doing so. ;-) I'd have thought it was to catch malloc bogons more swiftly, though I'll agree that making them fatal is probably too much. Were those two lines to vanish from release/Makefile again, I would not cry. ;-)