1.5.6-pre: Occasional bad memory accesses within cygwin1.dll

Pierre A. Humblet pierre.humblet@ieee.org
Wed Dec 31 18:20:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:38:08AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:02:44AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>>Oh.  This is probably with current CVS, which is broken.  Known problem.
> >>>It's why I haven't generated a snapshot yet.
> >
> >>This should be fixed now.  I'm uploading a snapshot.
> >
> >CYGWIN_ME-4.90 hpn5170x 1.5.6s(0.108/3/2) 20031231 01:31:40 i686 unknown
> >unknown Cygwin
> >
> >Now virtually every cygwin program (/bin/true, ls, uname,...) almost
> >always ends with the popup about causing an error in Cygwin1.dll. 
> 
> Did you look at the changes I made?  It's difficult to believe that minor
> changes to cygwin.din would cause a popup on every access, although I can
> believe that the stuff in CVS previously would work that way.  If anything,
> I'd expect that there would be no change rather than actual worsening.
> 
> Are you sure you're up to date?

It's straight from the snapshot, no cvs involved.

Pierre



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