Re: glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list

[Bruce Korb <bkorb at gnu dot org>]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Daniel Jacobowitz]
>
> > These messages come from malloc debugging, so presumably the linked
> > list is internal to malloc (e.g. for the free list).  You've
> > probably scribbled over something.
>
> Try using <URL:http://valgrind.org/> to see if you can pinpoint the
> error.  It is quite good at finding memory handling error.

Thank you both.  I was handing off an ill-formed script to a server
shell (bash) and _it_ was choking.  I didn't think it was actually
glibc, but your project name was so prominently mentioned in the
error string, I thought this would be a good place to start asking.

Thank you.  Regards, Bruce