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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:19:43 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: I know CVS is hosed (fix checked in) (did it work?) (anyone there?)
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:05:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:45:34PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:38:43AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>While attempting to cut down on the size of the 1.3.3 DLL, I uncovered a few
>>>problems with cygheap.  I couldn't track them down before I went to bed.
>>>
>>>The symptom is that applications die in cfree.  The problem manifests quickly
>>>in a process which execs a process which execs a process.
>>>
>>>I haven't seen the problem that Egor reported with free but it probably is not
>>>related to the cygheap problem.  It probably is somehow related to the new
>>>code in sigproc which allocates the zombie array dynamically.
>>
>>The fix for this turned out to be very trivial.  It was just the requirement
>>for a null pointer check.  Doh.
>>
>>I've checked the fix in.
>>
>>I'd again appreciate feedback on whether this fixes the problem or not.  It
>>seems to for me.
>>
>>This is not a fix for the rsync problem that was recently reported.
>
>Did this patch work?  It seems to for me.

The last we heard, another similar patch to this one didn't work for Corinna.

I'd like to get confirmation that this one works ok.

cgf