> 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. ;-)