Re: [Boost-build] BJam: Memory leak in execnt.c

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-01 11:49:20

Martin Kortmann wrote:
> I have found an serious memory leak in bjam rev 41518,
> who is responsible for this?
> 
> The leak is inside execnt.c. CreateProcess opens an
> Handle to the new processes thread. This handle
> will never beclosed.
> So bjam crashes after execution of more than 60000 commands
> or Createprocess will fail systemwide(!) and somtimes windows
> crashes completely (bluescreen).

Thanks for finding that! Change applied 
<http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/41535>.

> Maybe this is also the real solution for the "write to
> command bat file" workaround, but i havn't looked into this.

Hm, I'm not aware what work around you are referring to.

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