The following reply was made to PR pkg/35207; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gilles Dauphin <Gilles.Dauphin@enst.fr>
To: pkg-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/35207: net/proftpd 64bit abi (all system)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:02:49 +0100 (CET)

 You can close the PR. Fix is in proftpd-1.3.1rc1
 
 Thanks 
 Gilles
 
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 > From: "Gilles Dauphin" <dauphin@enst.fr>
 > To: pkg-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Subject: pkg/35207: net/proftpd 64bit abi (all system)
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 > 
 > >Number:         35207
 > >Category:       pkg
 > >Synopsis:       net/proftpd 64bit abi (all system)
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       high
 > >Responsible:    pkg-manager
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 08 10:55:00 +0000 2006
 > >Originator:     Gilles Dauphin
 > >Release:        SunOS 5.10 i86pc
 > >Organization:
 > ENST 
 > >Environment:
 > 
 > 
 > System: SunOS bi.enst.fr 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc
 > 
 > 
 > >Description:
 > 
 > 
 > proftpd crash at startup when compiled in 64bits
 > bug is in event,c and pool.c
 > line in event.c:
 >  evl_pool = pr_pool_create_sz(event_pool, 64);
 > 
 > the size of 64 is not enought for the 'struct pool' in pool.c when
 > adresses is 64bits long. The code is not portable.
 > in pool.c the function pr_pool_create_sz create a block of 64 byte,
 > but zeroing the new_pool by sizeof(struct pool) (72 byte with amd64) is
 > not correct.
 > 
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > 
 > run proftpd
 > 
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > 
 > [root@redhot 251] less patches/patch-da
 > --- src/pool.c.orig     Tue Mar  8 18:06:39 2005
 > +++ src/pool.c  Fri Dec  8 11:43:28 2006
 > @@ -363,6 +363,7 @@
 >  
 >    pr_alarms_block();
 >  
 > +  sz = sz > sizeof(struct pool) ? sz+1 : sizeof(struct pool) +1 ;
 >    blok = new_block(sz, TRUE);
 >  
 >    new_pool = (pool *) blok->h.first_avail;
 > 
 >