I was not aware of valgrind. Thanks for that tip.
Well, the problem goes away running valgrind. I have switched back and
forth running with and without valgrind, and it is consistent - I get
the problem without it every time, and valgrinds always makes the
problem go away.

A "Heisenbug" - lucky me...

On 3/23/07, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Mark Wattier wrote:
>
> > The multiple accesses are simply done sequentially, by calling
> > myapp_http_post2 multiple times. This is a single threaded program. It is
> > forked from a parent process, but curl is initialized and only used in the
> > child.
> >
> > I am also calling curl_free after using curl_escape, in the code that calls
> > myapp_http_post2. Are there issues with using realloc in the callback
> > function?
>
> Nope. I would suggest you try running your app with valgrind to see if it can
> pinpoint something.
>
> Oh, and seeing this is about libcurl you should consider using the
> curl-library mailing list instead to reach the libcurl hacking crowd.
>
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Received on 2007-03-24