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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
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