From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 19 15:57:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05446 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:57:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05439 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:57:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA22550; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:27:32 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA26492; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:27:32 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981220102731.Q24125@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:27:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kaleb Keithley , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. References: <199812191330.IAA26067@sunoco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812191330.IAA26067@sunoco>; from Kaleb Keithley on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 08:30:13AM -0500 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 8:30:13 -0500, Kaleb Keithley wrote: > > My 3.0-RELEASE system, up some 17 days, is now doing this when I telnet > (or ping, or anything else that uses inetd) to it. (I don't know how long > it's been like this, perhaps it explains why my outgoing email seem to > be being dropped on the floor. You can recover from this problem by restarting inetd. > Do I remember correctly that there was some fix for this made shortly > before 3.0-RELEASE? I don't know. A number of ``fixes'' were bandied around, but there was so much discussion that I can't recall if any of them was the final fix. > Did the fix not make it into 3.0-RELEASE? No. > Before I go snag the LaG inetd sources, will that fix the problem? I don't know. But some fixes were committed to -current about 10 days ago which claim to have fixed the problem. Since then I haven't had any problems. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message