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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:38:00 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>
To:        kaleb@ics.com (Kaleb Keithley)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
Message-ID:  <199812210938.LAA17923@cdsec.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812191330.IAA26067@sunoco> from "Kaleb Keithley" at Dec 19, 98 08:30:13 am

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> 
> My 3.0-RELEASE system, up some 17 days, is now doing this when I telnet
> (or ping, or anything else that uses inetd) to it. (I don't know how long
> it's been like this, perhaps it explains why my outgoing email seem to
> be being dropped on the floor.
> 
> Do I remember correctly that there was some fix for this made shortly
> before 3.0-RELEASE? Did the fix not make it into 3.0-RELEASE? Before
> I go snag the LaG inetd sources, will that fix the problem?

There is an open problem report, bin/8183, about this. I have just received
mail saying that the fix I posted changes the signal mask for child processes
and breaks Amanda; I haven't had a chance to look at this yet, and have not
experienced any problems myself. You may want to try the patches and see how
it goes.

cheers
Graham
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