Re: cvs rdiff -t consistently crashes with SEGV when processing files in an Attic directory

[Mark D. Baushke]

Hi James,

James Cribb <gjc@fortisclearing.com.au> writes:

> The attached Bourne shell script consistently reproduces the problem.
> The second attached file is the output from the script on our Linux
> host.
> 
> A GDB backtrace of the core file from cvs seems to show the SEGV
> occurs in __libc_free().  Possibly malloc()-ed memory is being
> free()-ed twice?

This problem is already fixed in the development version of cvs
(cvs1-11-x-branch). 

Use:

cvs -d :pserver:guest@cvs.cvshome.org:/cvs co -rcvs1-11-x-branch ccvs

to get your copy today. :-)

        -- Mark