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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:55:30 -0400
To: 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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In-Reply-To: <376827BA.F8C0FF40@vet.com.au>; from Trevor Yann on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 08:39:54AM +1000

On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 08:39:54AM +1000, Trevor Yann wrote:
>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.

Thanks for the pointer.  It looked really promising so I spent a little
while hacking it up to work with cygwin.  I just realized that this
scheme won't work with cygwin's fork mechanism.  Bleah.

Maybe it's time to rewrite fork again.  Yeah that's the ticket...

cgf