Re: [tkined] Memory corruption with TCL 8.0.4 and Scotty 2.1.10 on Solaris??

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Wed, 19 May 1999 16:26:44 +0200

>>>>> Judah Greenblatt writes:

Judah> Symptom:

Judah> I have a binding like: $session bind fooEntry commit {fooFunc
Judah> fooEntry %i} $session instance fooItem.1.2 myArray(fooItem.1.2)
Judah> XX

Judah> when the agent receives a set request for MIB entry fooItem.1.2
Judah> (where fooItem is a child of fooEntry in the mib), fooFunc is
Judah> called: fooFunc fooEntry xxfooBar fooBletch where "fooBar" and
Judah> "fooBletch" are other columns in table fooEntry.

Judah> It looks like the varBind for fooItem.1.2 has become corrupted
Judah> inside scotty at the point that the Scotty internal call to the
Judah> mib binding substitutes %i.

Judah> This happens repeatable at a certain point in a large test
Judah> script, but no place else. The only thing I am doing in that
Judah> test script that is odd is there are a large number of "after
Judah> idle" events queued up (perhaps 20 or 30).

I have no idea. Please try to come up with a stripped down version of
a script which triggers this bug. I have doubts that it has anything
to do with the number of after handlers. But you never know...

Juergen

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