ls broken in shell.

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Mon Sep 15 00:04:30 UTC 2014


On 15/09/2014 9:59 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Time for your wrapper call generator. Wrap malloc and free. Cod easily be freeing something that was never allocated or a pointer that was incremented.

Hmmm getting automake and friends to support a trace link ... I have 
some things on between now and the end of the year. ;)

>
> Another guess is a pointer that was not initialized to NULL and ls thinks it should be freed.
>

The check failed in a free call from memory in the mksh it released 
after ls returned. It was like something corrupted the memory. I have 
not looked at the fileio example and have no time at the moment so just 
raised the issue.

Chris



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