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Re: [Patch]: heap_chunk_size


On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:22:01PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Here is a no brainer patch that eliminates the use of "heap_chunk" in
>the cygwin shared.  That removes a source of DOS attack and it's
>another step towards the demise of the cygwin shared.

This isn't a no-brainer.  This value is stored in the shared memory to
avoid the runtime cost of registry lookups by every cygwin program.

cgf


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