Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 02:38:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> Cc: Studded <Studded@gorean.org>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. Message-ID: <199810100938.CAA04559@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 01:43:25 CDT." <19981010014325.B12383@znh.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.
I'd have to concur; these should all be MAXPATHLEN.
When you try increasing these, you should be able to un-staticise
'msgvec' in lex.c and have it still work like it should.
Thanks for tracking these down!
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