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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 1999 04:01:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        kaleb@ics.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
Message-ID:  <199901050401.VAA04572@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981222023206.L14124@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Dec 22, 98 02:32:06 am

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> > My 3.0-RELEASE system, up some 17 days, is now doing this when I telnet
> > (or ping, or anything else that uses inetd) to it. (I don't know how long
> > it's been like this, perhaps it explains why my outgoing email seem to
> > be being dropped on the floor.
> > 
> > Do I remember correctly that there was some fix for this made shortly
> > before 3.0-RELEASE? Did the fix not make it into 3.0-RELEASE? Before
> > I go snag the LaG inetd sources, will that fix the problem?
> 
> This has been fixed recently (last week, I think).  Not fixed for
> 3.0-RELEASE.

This fixes the inetd problem, but doesn't fix the mmap "page corruption"
due to a stale page reference not being revoked properly after a low
swap condition causes clean pages in an mmap'ed image to be reaped out.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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