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Re: I know CVS is hosed
- To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: I know CVS is hosed
- From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:49:03 +0400
- Organization: deo
- References: <20010906113843.A30174@redhat.com>
- Reply-To: egor duda <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
Hi!
Thursday, 06 September, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
CF> While attempting to cut down on the size of the 1.3.3 DLL, I uncovered a few
CF> problems with cygheap. I couldn't track them down before I went to bed.
CF> The symptom is that applications die in cfree. The problem manifests quickly
CF> in a process which execs a process which execs a process.
CF> I haven't seen the problem that Egor reported with free but it probably is not
CF> related to the cygheap problem. It probably is somehow related to the new
CF> code in sigproc which allocates the zombie array dynamically.
yes, it crashes at 'free (zombies)'. i've built malloc-debuggibg version
but somehow it doesn't get to free(zombies), but crash earlier at
_cmalloc () when one of buckets contains invalid nonzero pointer.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19