Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 17:31:37 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2347: sysinstall: ppp: recursive call in malloc() Message-ID: <19408.852168697@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:20:02 PST." <199701012020.MAA22030@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> 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. ;-)
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