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Date:      Sat, 14 Dec 1996 09:43:57 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers)
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Malloc bug report
Message-ID:  <199612140843.JAA23737@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612140143.LAA02969@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> from Robert Chalmers at "Dec 14, 96 11:43:06 am"

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As Robert Chalmers wrote:

> The following is being reported in an attempt to track a Malloc problem.

...but you're reporting it to the wrong group of people. :)

> The malloc warnings I have found are 
> 
> 1) in the httpd's error.log.  Both Apache, and NSCA httpd procuce the 
>    same warning, which is
>    Malloc warning: free():page already free.
>    This warning is produced each time the file called 'index.html'
>     is accessed. It may be produced by others, but certainly this
>     file produces the warning in the error.log file.

This kind of malloc warnings is generally an indication about bugs in
the application using malloc(), not about a problem in malloc()
itself.  So if you can reproduce that problem, send it (along with a
page that lets you reproduce it) to the Apache maintainers.  Of
course, you should first make sure that you're running the most recent
version of Apache, since it's not unlikely that they've already fixed
that problem.

> 2) in the 'tin' newsreader, when it _first_ starts, and is setting up 
>     its files; it produces,
>    Malloc warning: free():junk pointer, to high to make sense.

Same here.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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