Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:06:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: Mukti Arip <mukti@unpad.ac.id>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD error message (junk pointer) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980513090438.28992A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199805130328.UAA02366@bubba.whistle.com>
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On Tue, 12 May 1998, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Mukti Arip writes:
> > My FreeBSD machine give me error message like this:
> >
> > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
> >
> > What's the meaning of that error message?
>
> This is a message from the malloc/free code in libc. inetd is
> apparently corrupting the heap somehow (in this case, trying
> to free() a bogus value).
I know of a person who (apparently) can reproduce this bug at will, but I
forgot who wanted to contact with such a person, so if he still wants it,
let him speak up...
Andrzej Bialecki
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