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RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:04:26 -0000
- Subject: RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll
----Original Message----
>From: Christopher Faylor
>Sent: 16 March 2005 19:21
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:06:20PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> dk@mace /gnu/glibc-2.3.4/resolv> cat -n gethnamaddr.c
>> [........snip!........] 103
>> 104 static struct hostent host;
>> 105 static char *host_aliases[MAXALIASES];
>> 106 static char hostbuf[8*1024];
>> [........snip!........]
>>
>> Well, it also uses a static buffer. Guess glibc free (...) must be more
>> robust in the presence of garbage input than newlib free (...), although
>> that's odd, since they're both based on dl-malloc under the hood.
>
> Cygwin doesn't use newlib's free.
>
> cgf
doh, of course it doesn't. But it is still dlmalloc.
cheers,
DaveK
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