lynx-dev memory leaks vs corruption

[Philip Webb]

981203 Klaus Weide wrote: 
> The fix in that patch should prevent the memory corruption,
> but it introduces a memory leak.
 
again for my education -- & i suspect other lynx-devers' -- ,
what is the difference between memory corruption/leaks?

as for signals,  man signal  gets a brief account of  signal(2) ,
but it is hardly enlightening (KW mentioned this in another message).

i will test with KW's small patch shortly.

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