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From: "Andrew Kalman" <aektravel AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix?
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 23:23:01 -0700
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Hi Christopher.

Re:
>If this is important to you then you could build debugging versions of
>make and the cygwin DLL and figure out where the memory was being
>consumed.  Trying to track down where memory leaks occur is always very
>tricky but maybe you could put some checks in cygwin's fork and
>spawn_guts routines as a first step.

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is _way_ beyond my abilities. I don't know 
the first thing about Unix programming.

But I'm puzzled -- if this is a bona fide leak in the Cygwin stuff, then why 
isn't there a major effort to eliminate it? I don't think what I'm using the 
Cygwin bash shell for is all that out of the ordinary ...


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Andrew E. Kalman, Ph.D.  aek AT pumpkininc DOT com


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