On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 03:46:41PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 06:27:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 06:15:24PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> >At 11:59 AM 12/24/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:29:51AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 05:28:16PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>>> The subject says it all. >> >>>> >> >>>> I'm hoping to release cygwin 1.5.6 shortly after Christmas. >> >>> >> >>>On WinMe the queue runner forked by the exim daemon still occasionally >> >>>produces a popup indicating an error in Cygwin1.dll >> >> >> >>"a popup indicating an error".......? >> >> >> >>Not too helpful. >> > >> >It has happened once more, but differently. ps shows the child as defunct. >> >Sysinternals shows everything normal, pinfo exists in the child. >> >There is no fork failure, in fact the one I mentioned earlier is the only >> >one out of 17070 runs. >> > >> >This time when I killed the daemon (just to see), I got >> > 330495 [main] exim 34658275 proc_subproc: couldn't get proc lock. >> >Something is wrong. >> > 330520 [main] exim 34658275 proc_subproc: couldn't get proc lock. >> >Something is wrong >> >> If you have the time could you add some more debugging output to the >> failing cases that lead to this message and try running it with that? > >I updated from cvs and noticed you had already added debug info.
I added strace debugging. You can use that as a clue for what I was talking about and make it visible if you can't run exim under strace. >CYGWIN_ME-4.90 hpn5170x 1.5.6(0.108/3/2) 2003-12-26 12:15 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > >-996371854 [main] exim 219879 proc_subproc: couldn't get proc lock. what 4, val >1628435976 >-996369556 [main] exim 219879 proc_subproc: couldn't get proc lock. what 4, val >1628435976 > >Also, while running sysinternals I noticed to the exim daemon still had tty >related handles, despite setsid(). Ditto for inetd. Calling setsid does not automatically eliminate tty handles. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
