From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 12 02:57:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA08795 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 02:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA08787 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 02:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.203]) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA01917 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 11:56:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by ida.interface-business.de (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA17492; Mon, 12 May 1997 12:02:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970512120216.JD58189@ida.interface-business.de> Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:02:17 +0200 From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) To: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: malloc(): recursive call References: <19970512101647.UD18700@ida.interface-business.de> <2391.863429066@critter> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <2391.863429066@critter>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on May 12, 1997 11:24:26 +0200 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >mail in malloc(): error: recursive call. > >Abort trap - core dumped > > > >Anybody ever seen such? > > Yes, usually means that a signal handler tried to malloc(), Blech, why should mail(1) trap signals, and which signals are supposed to be sent to mail from within a cron job anyway? -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j