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Re: Something is rotten in recent snapshots
- To: cygwin developers <cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Something is rotten in recent snapshots
- From: Trevor Yann <TYann@vet.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:39:54 +1000
- Organization: Computer Associates International, Inc
- References: <19990616145002.A1955@cygnus.com>
There is something like Electric Fence for Windows. It is called
HeapCheck:
http://www.image.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/HeapCheck.html
I haven't tried to used it with Cygwin.
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> There is some kind of memory corruption in recent snapshots. I'm
> tracking down the cause now. Unless you want to track down the problem
> for me, you'd all probably be well-advised not to use any snapshot from
> the last week or so.
>
> Just in case anyone cares, the problem I see is that an attempt to close
> all of the open handles in the spawn_guts() function uncovers the fact
> that the heap is corrupted. I'm trying to find out where the corruption
> occurs now.
>
> I don't suppose that Electric Fence has been ported to cygwin?
>
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