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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-02-19 08:52:58 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-02-19 08:52:58 +0000
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2001-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+ Fix a race condition: freed storage accessed during a signal handler.
+
+ * src/sort.c (struct tempnode.next): Now volatile.
+ (zaptemp): Free the file name after removing it from the temp list,
+ not before, because a signal can arrive between the two actions
+ and cleanup () traverses the list.
+
+2001-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
Check for input size, and do not overallocate memory.
Also check for memory quotas.