Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 01:43:25 -0500 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: Studded <Studded@gorean.org>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. Message-ID: <19981010014325.B12383@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <361D6C89.F76B1755@gorean.org>; from Studded on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:53:13PM -0700 References: <199810090046.RAA01827@dingo.cdrom.com> <361D6C89.F76B1755@gorean.org>
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On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:53:13PM -0700, Studded wrote:
> The culprit would seem to be one or more of:
> char tempMail[24];
> char tempQuit[24];
> char tempEdit[24];
> char tempResid[24];
> char tempMesg[24];
>
> from temp.c, however in my testing I couldn't figure out which one.
> Also, to make matters more exciting I have TMPDIR set to
> /home/my16charusername/.temporary_dir. The TMPDIR variable is referenced
> in the same part of the code in temp.c.
>
> Hoping we're narrowing this down,
All of them are the culprit:
space used:
37: strlen("/home/my16charusername/.temporary_dir")
+ 8: strlen("RsXXXXXX")
+ 1: trailing nul
46
space available:
24
46 characters is far far too big for a 24 character buffer.
--
Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com>
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have to at least consider
the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidę on
our hands (Douglas Adams -- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)
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