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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:28:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        archie@whistle.com, jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inetd: realloc/free bug
Message-ID:  <199812110628.WAA23665@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812110625.WAA34705@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Dec 10, 98 10:25:53 pm"

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Matthew Dillon writes:
> :> inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
> :> inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
> :> 
> :
> :http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8183
> :
>     Ick.  character flags through a pipe?  Ick.  Ick.  Let me fix this 
>     thing, guys, I'm getting tired of all the arguing and non-action for
>     such a simple bug.

It's not trivial if you want to guarantee that no signals are missed.
There's no way atomically to: unblock signals and call select().

-Archie

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