Re: [Lynx-dev] 2.8.6dev.10

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Thomas Dickey dixit:
>
> > > HTTP/1.0 200 OKlynx in free(): error: chunk is already free
> > >                                                           Abort (core dumped)
> >
> > Is this for a URL that I could test (and reproduce)?
>
> No, it occurs after running lynx for a while, but it didn't
> occur when running lynx out of gdb (yet).
>
> > That might help.  Generally I'm using valgrind (instead).
>
> Okay, I'll look at it. But I don't know if it's a memory

I read that there's a FreeBSD port for it (may help).  Before that I'd
use dmalloc, ElectricFence or built-in stuff like lynx's.

> management related thing, because the termination is
> started by propolice[1], not our malloc implementation.

I see there's a download (will see if it's useful on Linux).

> I'm still puzzled, because diffing between dev.7b and 10
> shows only one more free()...
>
> bye,
> //mirabile
>
> [1] http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/
>
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