From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 13 01:03:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA05999 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 01:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05968 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 01:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA02895; Wed, 13 May 1998 17:32:49 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980513173249.M20153@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:32:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrzej Bialecki , Archie Cobbs Cc: Mukti Arip , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD error message (junk pointer) References: <199805130328.UAA02366@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrzej Bialecki on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:06:51AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 13 May 1998 at 9:06:51 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > 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... Me. Sure, it would be particularly interesting if it can be repeated at will. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message