From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 16:39:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25179 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25080 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:38:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with UUCP id QAA19474; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA04703; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:35:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199805122335.QAA04703@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: realloc() error - cryptic little thing In-Reply-To: <19980513082305.E20153@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 13, 98 08:23:06 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@thought.org, monachus@arces.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Greg Lehey: > On Tue, 12 May 1998 at 13:27:37 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > According to Greg Lehey: [[ .. ]] > > Don't think it is swap-related, unless inetd does something > > bizarre. From my zsh on my 6x86 (256M of swap), I type > > > > % setenv LANG de_DE.ISO_8859-1 > > > > and thus far always seem the realloc() complaint. First time. > > On my second try, no noise. > > I'm not sure I understand this statement. BTW, why do you choose a > German environ? Wasn't this discussion anout the `junk pointer' error? I'm seeing: p2 15:21 [518] setenv LANG de_DE.ISO_8859-1 -zsh in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. Okay, my mistake. It's in free(), not realloc(). This may be simply another zsh error on the x86 platform. This only happens once, tho. I'm using a non-English LANG in my locale work. Writing my own locale.c and localedef.c... ((So far, FreeBSD is way ahead in its locale code.)) > > > It's irritating rather than dangerous. Since it's completely within > inetd, it's not going to affect the rest of the system much, but it > makes it difficult to establish connections. > It'll be interesting when you've figured out what the score is. gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message