>Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 09:48:50 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>

>Data modified on freelist: word 7 of object 0xf88f2040 size 56 previous
>type VM mapent (0xdeadbeff != 0xdeadbeef)
>
>I thought maybe deadbeff was a typo in the source somewhere, but an
>exhaustive grep turned up nothing.

More likely some kernel code did something like:

p->m |= 0x10;

after p was free()'d.
-- 
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