Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:32:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: Mukti Arip <mukti@unpad.ac.id>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD error message (junk pointer) Message-ID: <19980513173249.M20153@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980513090438.28992A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:06:51AM %2B0200 References: <199805130328.UAA02366@bubba.whistle.com> <Pine.NEB.3.95.980513090438.28992A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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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
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