From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 18 14:42:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11916 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:42:33 -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 OAA11877 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:42:18 -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 OAA23360; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:35:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803182235.OAA23360@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Memory leak in inetd in last week's -current? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:47:03 +0100." <587.890257623@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:35:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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