> From: Dan Kegel
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Got it. I'm attaching a minimal test case. glibc's makefile
> > requires that Make be able to handle 140 levels of include recursion,
> > but cygwin Make crashes after about 130 -- unless you're running
> > under gdb or strace, in which case it works fine.
>
> Turns out the smallest test case is even smaller:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> int i;
> for (i=0; ; i++) {
> int fd = open("foo.c", O_RDONLY);
> printf("fd #%d is %d\n", i, fd);
> }
> }
>
> This crashes for me at the 133rd fd unless I run it under
> gdb, in which case it runs quite happily forever without
> crashing (though it runs out of fds fairly soon).
> And this is a WinXP system with an up-to-date cygwin and
> scads of memory, not some Win95 box with 16MB...
FWIW; using the previously posted fds.c, slightly modified:
I can reproduce this with 1.5.9-1 (ususally 133 iterations and a core
dump).
Switching to 1.5.8-1 cygwin1.dll rasies the limit to some 3200 iterations
(no dump).
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E
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