[Windows] potential memory corruption

[franko]

I am chasing a difficult to reproduce bug in my application using dmon.

It seems to happen when I get a lot of accumulated files' events when the application is unfocused, for example when I switch to the terminal and I delete recursively a directory with a lot of files in a place monitored by dmon. I suspect a memory corruptions starting in dmon but I am not sure about that.

So I am asking, if I want to investigate in the dmon implementation for Windows what things may cause a buffer overflow or something similar when a lot of events are reported ?

Just for completeness: on windows I use dmon recursively on the directory to monitor and I watch only a single directory.

[septag]

sorry for late reply. It's difficult to say, it can be anything, but you can run your code with ASAN. and be aware that the callbacks are called from a worker thread. I doubt that buffer overflow will happen, because it's using a dynamic heap array, unless you have like more than 2 billion events happening. I didn't see any issue like that. but on the other hand, I never tried your scenario. I'll keep this open and try to reproduce your bug.

[septag]

I guess there is no repro here (I hope so at least), closing it for now.