cygwin stable and cvs snapshot - fork() bug
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 26 12:38:00 GMT 2007
michael.vogt@post.ch wrote:
> I tried to compile mpd for Windows using Cygwin. After adding some
> workarounds (add fake_getaddrinfo.h, check
> http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1566) I was able to compile mpd.
> But when I tried to start it, mpd failed:
>
>
> $ ./mpd.exe --stdout --verbose
> binding to any address
> flushing warning messages
> done flushing warning messages
> current locale is "C"
> setting filesystem charset to ISO-8859-1
> setFsCharset: fs charset is: ISO-8859-1
> reading DB
> opening pid file
> 1 [main] mpd 1736 C:\cygwin\home\mpx\mpd-test\mpd.exe:
> *** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx (0x19030000),
> Win3 2 error 6. Terminating.
> 68 [main] mpd 676 fork: child 1736 - died
> waiting for dll loading, errno 11 problems fork'ing for daemon!
>
> cygserver is running and i did a "$ export CYGWIN=server "
>
> I traced down the error in the file player.c, source:
>
> static int playerInit(void)
> {
> ...
> LOG(" debug playerInit: 10\n");
> pid = player_pid;
> if (pid > 0) {
> kill(pid, SIGCONT);
> pc->wait = 0;
> return 0;
> }
>
> LOG(" debug playerInit: 20\n");
> player_pid = fork(); <<<<<<<<<<< CRASH
> LOG(" debug playerInit: 30 (pid: %i/%i)\n", pid, player_pid);
> blockSignals();
> LOG(" debug playerInit: 31 \n");
> if (player_pid==0)
>
>
> any hints?
Have you eliminated the <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA> factor?
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A: Yes.
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