From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 18 14:30:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08279 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA08256; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA15687; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:30:06 -0700 (PDT) To: Terry Lambert cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, gram@cdsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free (was: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:19:51 -0000." <199709182119.OAA13921@usr03.primenet.com> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:30:06 -0700 Message-ID: <15683.874618206@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > This would indicate a bug of the class where memory is written to after > > > being free()'ed, a kind of bug which phkmalloc makes no attempt to catch. > > > > Man, I sure wish there was a copy of purify available for FreeBSD. > > It's great at catching stuff like this! :( > > Ask them for a port. What the hell, the worst that could happen is they'd > say "no". I have. They did. :-) Jordan