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Re: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix?
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix?
- From: "Andrew Kalman" <aektravel at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 23:23:01 -0700
- Reply-To: aek at pumpkininc dot com
Hi Christopher.
Re:
>If this is important to you then you could build debugging versions of
>make and the cygwin DLL and figure out where the memory was being
>consumed. Trying to track down where memory leaks occur is always very
>tricky but maybe you could put some checks in cygwin's fork and
>spawn_guts routines as a first step.
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is _way_ beyond my abilities. I don't know
the first thing about Unix programming.
But I'm puzzled -- if this is a bona fide leak in the Cygwin stuff, then why
isn't there a major effort to eliminate it? I don't think what I'm using the
Cygwin bash shell for is all that out of the ordinary ...
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Andrew E. Kalman, Ph.D. aek@pumpkininc.com
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