Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:25:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Memory leak in inetd in last week's -current? Message-ID: <199803182125.NAA23054@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:44:14 %2B1030." <19980318084414.07315@freebie.lemis.com>
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> I've just discovered that my inetd has been rejecting connections with > the following message: > > $ ftp ftp.lemis.com > Connected to freebie.lemis.com. > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > ftp> > > I took a ktrace of it happening, if that's of any use, and restarted > inetd, which made the problem go away. Any ideas? Bug in inetd, normally associated with malloc failure (system out of memory). Possibly bad use of a low (nonzero) magic pointer value, or possibly attempting to use a pointer to a static item as a substitute. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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