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Re: recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed errors post-11-30 snapshot


On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:07:58PM -0600, Van Sickle, Gary wrote:
>> From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
>> On Dec 14 15:00, Van Sickle, Gary wrote:
>> > OK, lessee what I missed:
>> 
>> The error message content.  When fixup_mmaps_after_fork fails, there's
>> a message in your window which gives at least some details for a
>start.
>> 
>
>"
>$ tar --help
>C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (3360): *** recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed
>Hangup
>"
>
>The number in parens changes with every attempted invocation of any
>program, everything else stays the same.
>
>> And why didn't you try strace?
>
>Because:
>
>- I didn't think of it.
>- There is no mention of a requirement to do so before reporting a
>potential issue on http://cygwin.com/problems.html.
>- I'm at work, where I'm paid to do things other than debug Cygwin
>snapshots.
>- I thought an straceless bug report was better than no bug report at
>all.
>
>>  This would give a lot more details which
>> might help to track this down, practically everything with the words
>> "mmap" in it would be helpful.
>> 
>
>"
>$ strace tar --help
>C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (3476): *** recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed
>Hangup
>"
>
>From a cmd.exe prompt:
>
>"
>H:\>strace bash | grep mmap
>  150   33277 [main] bash 2992 mmap64: addr 0, len 1376256, prot 3,
>flags 22, fd
> -1, off 0
>  495   33772 [main] bash 2992 mmap64: 0x189F0000 = mmap()
>bash-3.00$ tar --help
>   43 25299558 [main] bash 3556 fixup_mmaps_after_fork: fd -1, h 0x1,
>address 0x
>189F0000, len 0x150000, prot: 0x3, flags: 0x22, offset 0
> 3219 25302777 [main] bash 3556 fixup_mmaps_after_fork: succeeded
>bash-3.00$ exit
>Exit

Could you do a:

  strace -ostrace.out bash
  tar --help
  exit

and send the strace.out here as an attachment?

cgf

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