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Re: Massive checkin but still no memory corruption fix
- To: cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: Massive checkin but still no memory corruption fix
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:12:40 -0400
- References: <19990622001057.A23916@cygnus.com>
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:10:57AM -0400, cgf wrote:
>I made a lot of changes that will be reflected in the recent snapshot but
>I am still seeing occasional memory corruption. It is really sporadic
>and difficult to track down.
>
>This is what I've fixed:
>1) a long standing "wait_subproc: wait failed, nchildren..." error.
>2) stopped looping if there's an error on exit.
>3) argument passing in #! scripts (e.g. #!/bin/sh -x)
>4) don't attempt to use ntsec on drives which do not support it.
>5) run strace program at higher priority for slight speed improvement.
6) Revert scrolling code to (almost) old behavior. The April 17 changes
just caused too many problems. I think that scroll regions are broken
again, now, if anyone cares.
cgf