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Re: Two snapshot bugs


On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:13:12PM +0100, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>
>I found something that changed from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5s (Oct-10).
>
>In some old code I had been careful to free memory from environment
>variables that were unset, but now the free() triggers a SEGV.
>Is this a bug or should I be doing something differently?

environment variables are not guaranteed to have been allocated with
malloc.  This is consistent with UNIX, AFAIK.  It was a deliberate
change in cygwin.  There should be a ChangeLog entry for this.

cgf

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