cygheap_types

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 10 14:29, Ken Brown via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> Can someone explain to me the purpose of cygheap_types?  I can't see where
> any use is made of the classification of cygheap allocations into different
> types, but I'm probably just missing it.

The cygheap types have two purposes.  Debugging, because the
type tells you the original purpose of a cygheap block and,
within reason, where it has been allocated.  More importantly,
they are differently handled in cygheap_fixup_in_child() to
handle inheritance of internal data by forked and execed children.


Corinna