[PATCH] fhandler_pipe: add sanity limit to handle loops

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Dec 27 02:42:05 GMT 2021


On 12/26/2021 6:23 PM, Jeremy Drake wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2021, Ken Brown wrote:
> 
>> On 12/26/2021 5:43 PM, Jeremy Drake wrote:
>>> My loops are still going after an hour.  I know that ARM64 would have hit
>>> the assert before now.
> 
> Well, ARM64 hung up, but didn't hit the assert, so maybe there's some
> *other* issue running around.  Unfortunately gdb doesn't work to attach to
> a process there (it gets confused with the ARM64 DLLs loaded in the
> process).  And WinDbg can't load the symbols for a cygwin dll (cv2pdb
> generally works pretty well for this, but it seems to be confused by the
> split .dbg file for msys-2.0.dll).

Sounds like nothing can be done until it shows up on x86_64.

Ken


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