From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: One more fix :-) 11 Feb 1998 05:00:24 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD3700.3780FD90.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Reply-To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com To: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" Hi! malloc.cc (malloc_init): do not check for application's malloc in a forkee, this breaks memory coherency in a forkee and forker. use_internal_malloc flag now copies on fork. H:\usr\src\cygnus\cdk\winsup>diff -up malloc.cc.orig malloc.cc --- malloc.cc.orig Wed Feb 11 02:36:20 1998 +++ malloc.cc Wed Feb 11 15:00:36 1998 @@ -120,9 +120,12 @@ malloc_init () calls to export_malloc/free/realloc to application provided. This may happen if some other dll calls cygwin's malloc, but main code provides its own malloc */ - free (malloc (16)); - if (!export_malloc_called) - use_internal_malloc = 0; + if (!u->forkee) + { + free (malloc (16)); + if (!export_malloc_called) + use_internal_malloc = 0; + } } extern "C" -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job.