From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 14 16:23:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9641E37B9FF; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA89996; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:23:11 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Kris Kennaway Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpdump malloc bug Message-ID: <20000714162311.A89936@wopr.caltech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 04:03:08PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 04:03:08PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > citusc17# ln -s AJ /etc/malloc.conf > citusc17# tcpdump > tcpdump: [CRAP DELETED]: Device not configured > > This is true on 4.0-S as well, where I actually first found it. It's fixed in the tcpdump.org libpcap sources, but we haven't caught up yet. It's due to using memory after it's free'd, and I suggested to Bill Fenner (that is the right Bill F, right?) that we ought to update. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message