On 2020-09-10 13:31, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 10.09.2020 um 21:19 schrieb Ken Brown via Cygwin: >> On 9/10/2020 3:15 PM, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin wrote: >>>> On Sep 9 08:08, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin wrote: >>>>> Here's a strange one. In bash in i686, try to run: >>>>> >>>>> ls /dev/ptmx >>>>> >>>>> I only get about as far as: >>>>> >>>>> ls /dev/p >>>>> >>>>> and then my terminal window vanishes. This happens: >>>>> >>>>> * In fish or bash. >>>>> * On two different hosts that I've tried. >>>>> * In mintty or a system terminal. In the system terminal, sometimes the >>>>> command works normally the first time, but fails the 2nd time; or I have >>>>> to >>>>> press <TAB> after `ls /dev/p`, then the terminal vanishes. >>>>> * With other commands that treat their arguments as files, not text. So >>>>> for >>>>> example, I can't finish typing `cat /dev/ptmx` or `test -r /dev/ptmx` >>>>> before the terminal window vanishes, but `echo /dev/ptmx` works normally. >>>>> >>>>> It doesn't happen: >>>>> >>>>> * In x86_64 - only i686. >>>>> * In scripts - only interactively. >>>>> >>>>> Is anyone else able to reproduce this? I've tried to capture an strace >>>>> log, >>>>> but I've failed so far. The strace seems to stop the crash. Still trying. >>>>> >>>>> I thought this could be a BLODA problem, but the two hosts I tried are >>>>> running different virus scanners (McAfee and Windows Defender). >>>>> >>>>> Cygwin 3.1.7-1, all packages up-to-date. Output of cygcheck -svr attached. >>>>> >>>>> Andrew >>>> >>>> I think I fixed it. I just uploaded new developer snapshots to >>>> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please give them a try. >>> >>> When I substitute cygwin1-20090909.dll for cygwin1.dll in i686, I can't run >>> any commands. They all give "The application was unable to start correctly >>> (0xc0000022)". Anything different I should be doing? >> >> Check the permissions on cygwin1-20090909.dll. Is it executable? > cygwin1-20090909.dll is 11 years old. Did you download the latest snapshot?
The latest is 20200909, so I suspect his fingers got excited about 9s somewhere, plus the old one is no longer available: "The requested URL /snapshots/x86/cygwin1-20090909.dll.xz was not found on this server." -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.] -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
