This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh-1.2g-5


On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:45:09PM +0100, Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
>A new version of the autossh package is available in the Cygwin 
>distribution.
>
>Changes in version 1.2g-5:
>* Fix heap corruption and segfaults caused by free()ing static memory.

Just to state it really clearly:  it wasn't freeing static memory.  It
was clearing memory that was malloced by the cygwin DLL and which the
cygwin DLL expected to manage.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]