From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 10 22:51:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24761 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:51:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24753 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:51:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA34943; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:51:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:51:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199812110651.WAA34943@apollo.backplane.com> To: Archie Cobbs Cc: archie@whistle.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd: realloc/free bug References: <199812110628.WAA23665@bubba.whistle.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Matthew Dillon writes: :> :> inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. :> :> inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. :> :> :> : :> :http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8183 :> : :> Ick. character flags through a pipe? Ick. Ick. Let me fix this :> thing, guys, I'm getting tired of all the arguing and non-action for :> such a simple bug. : :It's not trivial if you want to guarantee that no signals are missed. :There's no way atomically to: unblock signals and call select(). : :-Archie If you put a time limit on select(), it doesn't matter if there is a race condition there. How does select() cause a signal to be missed ? -Matt :___________________________________________________________________________ :Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message : Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet Communications & God knows what else. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message