From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 08:03:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA25397 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:03:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from demios.scl.ameslab.gov (demios.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.138.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA25390 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by demios.scl.ameslab.gov (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA11039 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:02:37 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: demios.scl.ameslab.gov: ghelmer owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:02:36 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A friend running 2.2.5 has run into the problem where inetd complains on incoming connections with "inetd in realloc: warning: junk pointer too low to make sense". His system is a production telnet & mail server for his organization, and this message fouls up the protocols (ftp & pop especially), causing many problems. inetd.c doesn't even call realloc(3), though, and there's only one unchecked memory allocation, a strdup(3) near the end of the source that doesn't look like it could be related to the problem. /etc/inetd.conf is fine, as is /etc/services. This problem has been mentioned many times before but I don't see whether anyone has resolved it. Any solutions? Thanks, Guy Guy Helmer, Computer Science Graduate Student - ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Iowa State University http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Laboratory