readshortcut crashes with updated cygwin-1.5.18-1 (cygutils maintainer -- RFA patch enclosed)

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Fri Jul 8 04:31:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It's a readshortcut double free problem.  As mentioned in another
> message, cygwin is using a new version of malloc and it appears to be
> more sensitive to these programming errors.
> 
> The patch below fixes it.
> 
> Chuck, ok to check in?  If so, I'll also get rid of all of the ^Ms in the
> readshortcut files.

Please do.  Fix seems obvious after the fact -- but then, they all do. 
I'll release a new version soon -- along with zlib, ncurses, libtiff.

--
Chuck

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