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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:58:16 +0200
From:      Pierre Beyssac <Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr>
To:        Alexander Sanda <entropy@compufit.at>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: encountered possible VM bug ?
Message-ID:  <19980824115816.A15512@mars.hsc.fr>
In-Reply-To: <19980824111923.A207@compufit.at>; from Alexander Sanda on Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 11:19:23AM %2B0200
References:  <19980824111923.A207@compufit.at>

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On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 11:19:23AM +0200, Alexander Sanda wrote:
> "realloc() junk pointer, too low" as an error message from inetd.
> 
> I had to kill and restart inetd to restore normal operation.
> 
> What the hell happened to inetd ?

Under out of memory conditions, inetd tends to fall in a weird
state. Apparently this is an interaction between the malloc library
and inetd, but nobody has managed yet to find out exactly what
happens. Maybe error checking is lacking somewhere.
-- 
Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr

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