Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:57:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112185627.22079R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980106095609.10920A-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Guy Helmer wrote: > A friend running 2.2.5 has run into the problem where inetd complains on > incoming connections with "inetd in realloc: warning: junk pointer too low > to make sense". His system is a production telnet & mail server for his > organization, and this message fouls up the protocols (ftp & pop > especially), causing many problems. inetd.c doesn't even call realloc(3), > though, and there's only one unchecked memory allocation, a strdup(3) near > the end of the source that doesn't look like it could be related to the > problem. /etc/inetd.conf is fine, as is /etc/services. > > This problem has been mentioned many times before but I don't see whether > anyone has resolved it. Any solutions? None yet that I know of. The biggest problem is that it's hard to reproduce -- my machine doesn't give those errors. If you can get a consistent case and can attach gdb to it and give details, then we might be able to do something with it. Note that it could be a library call, if realloc() isn't called in the program itself. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980112185627.22079R-100000>