Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:35:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Memory leak in inetd in last week's -current? Message-ID: <199803182235.OAA23360@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:47:03 %2B0100." <587.890257623@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> In message <199803182125.NAA23054@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> 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. > > Wrong. > > It says "too >high< to make sense". Whooops, that's a new one. The normal one is "too low", which makes me wonder (if the two are the same) whether this is "pointer is garbage"? -- \\ 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
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