Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:52:52 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Jim Stratus <stratus@swcempire.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error Message Message-ID: <20020212175252.D5160@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <006201c1b373$ff3d4160$489a0d82@qwest.net>; from stratus@swcempire.com on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:18:51PM -0700 References: <006201c1b373$ff3d4160$489a0d82@qwest.net>
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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.
It's more likely a bug with the program you're using. free()'ing a
malloc'd pointer multiple times will cause the error to occur. Why
don't you try tracking it with the ports/devel/dmalloc package?
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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