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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Jim Stratus <stratus@swcempire.com>
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:18:51PM -0700, Jim Stratus wrote:
> When we go to run one of our programs, ./services, we get the following
> error:
> 
> free(): warning: chunk is already free
> 
> It is believed to be a freebsd problem, as after 1 reboot it works fine, but
> after we kill the process and run it again it has a problem. We are running
> 4.5, and we did not ever have this problem with version 4.4.

No, it's a your-program problem. You are trying to free() a piece
of memory which is, like the warning tells you, already freed.
Please check your [mc]alloc()s and free()s, they should be balanced.

Edwin

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