Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >>Do you have a series of steps that produces the problem you see? >> >> >> > >> >As I said in previous mail. >> >1. cd /cygdriver/i ( I is mounted as a usb-stick) >> >2. cd /proc 3. Use some tools such as Unlocker to check driver I, >> >Unlocker said driver I is locked by bash. >> >4. cd / ( / is at d:\cygwin ) >> >5. do the same as step 3, driver is not locked by bash. >> >> That's how Cygwin 1.7.5 would work. I would expect different behavior >> for 1.7.6.
> No, that's also how 1.7.6 works. I documented this behaviour in > path.cc: > /* Note that we don't set the dir handle to NULL for virtual paths. > The handle is used to generate a stackdump file. Since we can't > create a stackdump in a virtual path, we have at least *some* > directory handle to generate the stackdump in. > However, note that we have to make sure that we don't use the handle > wrongly as soon as we start to use it in other cases as well. */ > Looks like this behaviour is a problem and we should better close the > old handle. What to do with the new one? Just set it to NULL and > disallow stackdumps as long as we're in a virtual path? Or set it to > some well known path, like Cygwin's root? /var or /tmp would be more sensible. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 18.08.2010, <14:27> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple