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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:40:18 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: readshortcut crashes with updated cygwin-1.5.18-1 (cygutils maintainer  -- RFA patch enclosed)
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:09:11AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>It's a readshortcut double free problem.  As mentioned in another
>>message, cygwin is using a new version of malloc and it appears to be
>>more sensitive to these programming errors.
>>
>>The patch below fixes it.
>>
>>Chuck, ok to check in?  If so, I'll also get rid of all of the ^Ms in the
>>readshortcut files.
>
>Please do.  Fix seems obvious after the fact -- but then, they all do. 
>I'll release a new version soon -- along with zlib, ncurses, libtiff.

It's in theah.

Thanks.

cgf

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