From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: coredump completing scp
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:16:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101292216.p0TMGPm2003261@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu> of "Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:42:17 EST." <AANLkTikaArDyk7seZO_uy7=E=OyA9uwWkqeC_EO9AYZZ@mail.gmail.com>
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Vin Shelton wrote:
> > If you have valgrind, running "valgrind zsh -f" might be useful. (I
> > don't think you'd need any of the options to look for leaked memory
> > for something like this.)
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Here's the report from valgrind. The call
> to setpwent is made from fillnameddirtable in hahstable.c. I don't
> really know what else to make of this, though.
Me neither, I'm afraid. It certainly *looks* like an error within
setpwent itself, though that doesn't necesarily mean it is. As valgrind
is claiming the memory wasn't malloc'd at all it doesn't give us much of
a lead.
--
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-29 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-28 3:13 Vin Shelton
2011-01-28 3:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-01-28 3:46 ` Vin Shelton
2011-01-28 9:56 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-01-28 10:14 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-01-29 1:42 ` Vin Shelton
2011-01-29 22:16 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2011-01-29 23:13 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-01-29 23:33 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-01-30 5:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-02-15 19:02 ` Peter Stephenson
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