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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Sv: Sv: Limit for number of child processes
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 19:39:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200828173950.GM3272@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <395e2d18-802f-9ac3-012d-eb0a12f6ae02@cornell.edu>

On Aug 28 12:02, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 8/28/2020 9:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > As POC, I added a bit of code to maintain a second array, which is only
> > allocated (using HeapAlloc so as not to spill into the child processes)
> 
> Should there be a call to HeapFree somewhere, or is there some reason this
> isn't needed?

It's local memory in a single process, and it's allocated only once.
There's no reason to shrink or free this ever again.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-28 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-26 12:00 sten.kristian.ivarsson
2020-08-26 17:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-08-27 12:17   ` Sv: " sten.kristian.ivarsson
2020-08-28  1:42     ` Ken Brown
2020-08-28  8:35       ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-08-28  8:38       ` Sv: " sten.kristian.ivarsson
2020-08-28 12:29         ` Ken Brown
2020-08-28 13:36           ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-08-28 14:09             ` Sv: " sten.kristian.ivarsson
2020-08-28 16:02             ` Ken Brown
2020-08-28 17:39               ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2020-08-29 10:01                 ` Ken Brown

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