On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:27:55PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:04:39AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >>On 7/22/2010 8:19 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote: >>> On 7/22/2010 6:44 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >>> >>> It is not that unreproducible... It fails maybe 5 out of 6 tries. If >>> you can get it to work 10 out of 10 times then I would say you don't >>> have the problem. >> >>I'm actually able to reproduce this early EOF error during cloning 100% >>under the following scenario: >> >>$ cd /tmp >>$ git clone --bare git://cmake.org/cmake.git >>$ git clone localhost:/tmp/cmake.git cmake-test >> >>This is all under Cygwin using all binary mounts on Windows XP SP 3. >>Cygwin, ssh, and git are all updated to current versions: >> >>Cygwin Package Information >>Package Version Status >>cygwin 1.7.5-1 OK >>git 1.7.1-1 OK >>openssh 5.5p1-2 OK >> >>I haven't tried the other configurations I mentioned yet, but if there >>is someone who has the ability to debug this in more depth, this looks >>like a quick and readily reproducible test case. > >I checked this out and it looks like something in git is overflowing >and scriblling on the stack. I was hoping that it would be a cygwin >problem which I could fix (and I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually >turned out to be) but I didn't see much evidence of the DLL causing this >problem. It looks like it is git itself doing something wrong.
I've done some more testing this weekend and I'm coming to a different conclusion. I don't see git being implicated. It really does seem to be a Cygwin problem after all. My current theory is that it's related to Cygwin's pipe code. Still investigating... cgf -- 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
