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Re: I know CVS is hosed (fix checked in)
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: I know CVS is hosed (fix checked in)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:45:34 -0400
- References: <20010906113843.A30174@redhat.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:38:43AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>While attempting to cut down on the size of the 1.3.3 DLL, I uncovered a few
>problems with cygheap. I couldn't track them down before I went to bed.
>
>The symptom is that applications die in cfree. The problem manifests quickly
>in a process which execs a process which execs a process.
>
>I haven't seen the problem that Egor reported with free but it probably is not
>related to the cygheap problem. It probably is somehow related to the new
>code in sigproc which allocates the zombie array dynamically.
The fix for this turned out to be very trivial. It was just the requirement
for a null pointer check. Doh.
I've checked the fix in.
I'd again appreciate feedback on whether this fixes the problem or not. It
seems to for me.
This is not a fix for the rsync problem that was recently reported.
cgf