glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list
Bruce Korb
bkorb@gnu.org
Sat Jun 3 18:56:00 GMT 2006
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
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