From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 18 13:28:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26665 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26660 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23054; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:25:48 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803182125.NAA23054@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Memory leak in inetd in last week's -current? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:44:14 +1030." <19980318084414.07315@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:25:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've just discovered that my inetd has been rejecting connections with > the following message: > > $ ftp ftp.lemis.com > Connected to freebie.lemis.com. > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > ftp> > > I took a ktrace of it happening, if that's of any use, and restarted > inetd, which made the problem go away. Any ideas? Bug in inetd, normally associated with malloc failure (system out of memory). Possibly bad use of a low (nonzero) magic pointer value, or possibly attempting to use a pointer to a static item as a substitute. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message