Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <42CDFC67.7050103@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:09:11 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: readshortcut crashes with updated cygwin-1.5.18-1 (cygutils maintainer -- RFA patch enclosed) References: <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8BA1C3ED AT exchange35 DOT fed DOT cclrc DOT ac DOT uk> <20050707180540 DOT GA15667 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20050707180540.GA15667@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. -- Chuck -- 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/