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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"?

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