Re: SEGV in conv_path_list_buf_size with xemacs-21.5-b13 and cygwin-snapshot-20030904-1

[Pete McCann <mccap at lucent dot com>]

(responding to my own post)

Pete McCann writes:
 > 
 > Corinna Vinschen writes:
 > 
 > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:33:42PM -0500, Pete McCann wrote:
 > > > 
 > > > Hi,
 > > > 
 > > > After some more hunting, I now understand there is a difference
 > > > between the cygwin heap and the user heap.  My problem is that I'm
 > > > running out of cygwin heap:
 > > 
 > > Can you check how often the function cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list_buf_size()
 > > is called?  Does that happen fairly often?
 > > 
 > > Corinna
 > 
 > That function is called about 600 - 700 times (sometimes as many as
 > 2000-3000) when I do a simple operation like checking for new mail in
 > the spool file.  cygheap_max grows steadily with each call.

And, I don't see a destructor for path_conv that would free
normalized_path.  Perhaps this is the source of the memory leak?
Note that a path_conv is created on the stack inside
conv_path_list_buf_size at path.cc, line 3627.

-Pete


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