segfault on 32bit cygwin snapshot

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Mar 4 15:17:03 GMT 2021


On 3/4/2021 6:50 AM, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 12:11:11 +0100
> marco atzeri wrote:
>> I have no problem to patch Python to solve the issue,
>> but I have not seen evidence of the dlsym mechanism .
>> But of course I an NOT and expert in this field.
>>
>> If someone looking to the code can give me some hints,
>> I will appreciate
> 
> I am also not sure where the dlsym() is used in python.
> At least, os.uname() works in python 3.8.7 and 2.7.18 in my
> environment even without that snippet. It seems that os.uname()
> does not use dlsym(). Do I overlook something?

This all started because Mark reported a problem building python 3.8.3:

   https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-December/040765.html
   https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-developers/2020-December/012019.html

It's strange that Marco never bumped into the problem.

Ken


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