Re: problem

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 24 16:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 24 13:26, Cristi wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Feb 18 14:07, Brian Holley wrote:
> > > > Under Win8.1, cygwin64 reports:
> > > > 
> > > >       1 [main] scp 4648 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute
> > > > FAST_CWD pointer.
> > > > 
> > > > and asks for this to be reported.
> > > 
> > > Are you using an older Cygwin version by any chance?  I'm using Windows
> > > 8.1 daily and I haven't seen this message for a long time.  The patch to
> > > avoid the message is from when 8.1 has gone Beta, as far as I remember.
> > > 
> > > Corinna
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm getting the same error (warning) on Windows 2008 and I still didn't find 
> > a way to avoid it. I'm sure I'm using the last version of Cygwin64. Maybe I 
> > should use an older version? Same install is working perfectly on Windows 
> > 2003 and Windows 7.
> 
> Sorry, but I can't reproduce this.  I've tested on a fully updated 2008
> 64 bit machine, with Cygwin 1.7.28, in 32 and 64 bit, and there's no
> such message for me.
> 
> This is one of those problems which gets apparently introduced by some
> hotfix which is not part of the normal update procedure, and I can't
> change this code unless I can reproduce the problem.
> 
> If somebody can reproduce this on the existing Windows versions, and
> this somebody feels not too repelled by plunging into assembler
> debugging ntdll.dll, mainly the function RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U and 
> a subsequently called noname function, and compares what happens with
> the Cygwin function find_fast_cwd_pointer() in path.cc, please feel
> free to submit patches.

Alternatively, if somebody finds out *what* introduces this problem, so
I can try to install this as well to reproduce the problem, I'd be
grateful as well.


Corinna

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