The following reply was made to PR install/34206; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/34206: segmentation fault in sysinst
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 20:17:47 +0100

 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:25:02AM +0000, St?phane Witzmann wrote:
 > 
 >          msg_prompt_win("%s.\n%s", -1, 18, l + 5, 4,
 >  -                       NULL, NULL, 1, errmsg, cont);
 >  +                       NULL, NULL, 0, errmsg, cont);
 
 That has other size effects - like allowing an indefinite amount of
 input that will trash the stack, and requiring alloca(0) to be
 equivalent to alloca(1).
 
 I'm doing a proper fix to msg_sys.def.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk