I know CVS is hosed

[egor duda]

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