From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 13 00:05:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26247 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 00:05:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26232 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 00:04:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA02605; Wed, 13 May 1998 09:06:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:06:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Archie Cobbs cc: Mukti Arip , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD error message (junk pointer) In-Reply-To: <199805130328.UAA02366@bubba.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 12 May 1998, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Mukti Arip writes: > > My FreeBSD machine give me error message like this: > > > > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. > > > > What's the meaning of that error message? > > This is a message from the malloc/free code in libc. inetd is > apparently corrupting the heap somehow (in this case, trying > to free() a bogus value). I know of a person who (apparently) can reproduce this bug at will, but I forgot who wanted to contact with such a person, so if he still wants it, let him speak up... Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message