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Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)


Greetings, L A Walsh!

> It didn't used to do this (a long time ago)...but has for about the
> past couple of years.

> Running on:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Athenae 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:16 x86_64 Cygwin

> Win7SP1x64.

> If I do an 'ls -CF', as a "normal user" no admin privs (did a dropmyrights
> and verified that I only had traversal priv), of /proc/sys/Global\?\?/,
> it will blue screen my system every time.

After BSOD, there should be at least aminibump.
You can use http://nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html to examine it.

> I didn't really want to even look for it, but finally decided to
> try it as an unprivileged user -- to see if that was an issue.

It was slow, but produced the list all right.

Win7Pro/RUS 64-bit.

Do you perhaps have some misbehaving drivers in your system?
Try clearing up your device manager.

SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 && mmc.exe devmgmt.msc


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 18:23:15

Sorry for my terrible english...


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