Two snapshot bugs

Fri Oct 13 13:45:00 GMT 2000

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:13:12PM +0100, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>>I found something that changed from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5s (Oct-10).
>>In some old code I had been careful to free memory from environment
>variables that were unset, but now the free() triggers a SEGV.
>Is this a bug or should I be doing something differently?

environment variables are not guaranteed to have been allocated with
malloc. This is consistent with UNIX, AFAIK. It was a deliberate
change in cygwin. There should be a ChangeLog entry for this.
cgf
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