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Re: cygwin 1.7 lock directory problem


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:51:29PM +0800, Huang Bambo wrote:
>2010/8/18 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>:
>> On 08/18/2010 05:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> Looks like this behaviour is a problem and we should better close the
>>>>> old handle. ?What to do with the new one? ?Just set it to NULL and
>>>>> disallow stackdumps as long as we're in a virtual path? ?Or set it to
>>>>> some well known path, like Cygwin's root?
>>>>
>>>> /var or /tmp would be more sensible.
>>>
>>> Maybe, but it also costs time. ?/var and /tmp Windows paths have to be
>>> generated by a full path conversion every time you call chdir() to a
>>> virtual directory.
>>> The Cygwin installation path (aka the root dir) is just available.
>>
>> Using / as the fallback during a virtual directory makes sense to me
>> (there may be other permission problems if / is not writable by the
>> current user, but a stack dump is a best effort attempt anyways).
>>
>Even in linux, you can't generate core file in virtual directory also,
>so just don't generate core file if you can't write at anywhere.

Right.  I don't think we need a fallback.  How is this any different
than what happens when you generate a core dump in linux in a read-only
directory?

cgf

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