From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 7 17:07:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29072 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:07:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29065 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA05940; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma005938; Wed Oct 7 17:06:25 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id RAA23304; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:06:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199810080006.RAA23304@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. In-Reply-To: <361BDDAC.F86C0045@dal.net> from Studded at "Oct 7, 98 02:31:24 pm" To: Studded@dal.net (Studded) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Studded writes: > I know there was interest in the "free(): warning: junk pointer, too > high to make sense." warning inre inetd, however I am getting it > reliably using the 'mail' command. Every time I just type 'mail' (no > parameters) to start up the interface, I get this warning. The program > seems to be working fine however. So... $ ln -sf AJ /etc/malloc.conf run mail again, and examine the core dump. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message