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Date:      Wed, 01 Jan 1997 21:55:06 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/2347: sysinstall: ppp: recursive call in malloc() 
Message-ID:  <13807.852152106@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:20:02 PST." <199701012020.MAA22030@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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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 :-(


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