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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:04:26 -0000
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----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 AT 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
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