SUMMARY: patch 100452-10 causes user application to dump core!

From: Max Lanfranconi - R and D (bogart@bpb.it)
Date: Wed Nov 18 1992 - 08:48:56 CST


On november, 16 I wrote:

> Dear Managers,
> We are talking about a Sun IPC, 24 Megs, O.W.3.0 Sun O.S. 4.1.2,
> patches installed:
>
> 100452-10 OpenWindows V3: XView library jumbo patch
>
> The application is home-written in C++ (Sun compiler 2.1); devguide and UIT.
>
> It runs perfectly well on a system without the patch.
>
> On a system with the patch on, it dumps core with SEGV signal on the first
> delete (free() system call) operation.
>
> As the patch was supposed to *FIX* some major memory leaks I am quite
> disappointed and would like to know your advice about this matter.
>
> Of course I will summarize!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> --Max
>

Until now I got four answers, all raccomanding the installation of the *Newer*
path # 100452-20 that should solve the problem.

Once again the list has come through !

Many, many thanks to:

Kathy Holle <holle@asc.slb.com>
mike%trdlnk@uunet.uu.net (Michael Sullivan)
Terry Rosenbaum <tlr@radiology.msu.edu!tlr>
seeger@thedon.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III)

--Max

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