Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:04:26 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050316192056.GB20987@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Mar 2005 10:04:25.0855 (UTC) FILETIME=[B34010F0:01C52AD8] ----Original Message---- >From: Christopher Faylor >Sent: 16 March 2005 19:21 > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:06:20PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >> dk@mace /gnu/glibc-2.3.4/resolv> cat -n gethnamaddr.c >> [........snip!........] 103 >> 104 static struct hostent host; >> 105 static char *host_aliases[MAXALIASES]; >> 106 static char hostbuf[8*1024]; >> [........snip!........] >> >> Well, it also uses a static buffer. Guess glibc free (...) must be more >> robust in the presence of garbage input than newlib free (...), although >> that's odd, since they're both based on dl-malloc under the hood. > > Cygwin doesn't use newlib's free. > > cgf doh, of course it doesn't. But it is still dlmalloc. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/