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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:39:54 +1000
From: Trevor Yann <TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Something is rotten in recent snapshots
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There is something like Electric Fence for Windows. It is called
HeapCheck:
	http://www.image.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/HeapCheck.html

I haven't tried to used it with Cygwin.

Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> There is some kind of memory corruption in recent snapshots.  I'm
> tracking down the cause now.  Unless you want to track down the problem
> for me, you'd all probably be well-advised not to use any snapshot from
> the last week or so.
> 
> Just in case anyone cares, the problem I see is that an attempt to close
> all of the open handles in the spawn_guts() function uncovers the fact
> that the heap is corrupted.  I'm trying to find out where the corruption
> occurs now.
> 
> I don't suppose that Electric Fence has been ported to cygwin?
> 
> --
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