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On Aug 6 19:31, Andrey Khalyavin wrote: > 2012/8/6 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Andrey? > > > > On Jul 24 15:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Jul 24 17:25, Andrey Khalyavin wrote: > >> > Hi, we have build bots that crash randomly on Windows XP and rarely on > >> > Windows 7. > >> > [...] > >> > 5. Task switching happens and first process proceeds to execute > >> > GetVersionEx with > >> > version cleared by memset and so not having its size set. > >> > 6. GetVersionEx returns error and first process fails to start. > >> > > >> > If there is no easy way to add synchronization to wincapc::init, I > >> > suggest to make > >> > wincap a regular (not shared) variable. > >> > >> There's another way, afaics. The idea here was that wincap is only > >> ever set once, and even *if* the information is written twice, the > >> content will be identical. > >> > >> So, afaics, the above problem is a result of using memset at all. At > >> startup, wincap is all 0 anyway, so the memset is not required and > >> apparently it even hurts. Weird that nobody saw this problem before. > >> > >> I applied a patch which should fix this problem. Please give the > >> next developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try, > >> or build yourself from CVS. > > > > Ping? Any feedback? Did you ever try a snapshot? > > I updated our cygwin with core libraries from 20120725 snapshot. There > are still crashes in our build, I'm investigating them. Haven't got a > crash dump yet. This time I have to catch them on the bots instead of > local computer. Please use the *latest* snapshot from CVS, 20120803. There were other potential reasons for crashes which only have been (tried to) fix in the latest snapshot. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
