On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Note that the code is _rock_solid_ on Linux/Unix/Mac OSX, and on all > > earlier versions of Windows we've ever tried it on. We've _never_ seen it > > seg-vio before. > > Please provide a complete (hopefully simple) testcase, along with the > compilation flags, etc. In particular, it'd be interesting to see how > nargv is allocated, etc. I suspect you're not placing a NULL at the end > of the argument list, and Cygwin and Linux allocate nargv differently (so > that on Linux, nargv just happens to have zeroed memory after it).
Almost; right issue, wrong problem. It turned out not that there wasn't a terminating NULL but that there was an extra one, one past where it should have been! This kind of problem is, apparently, _very_ easy to overlook and I guess we just got away with it in the past. -shrug- I want to thank you for taking the time to reply, Igor. I was awfully stressed out about it. Even though it wasn't really a Cygwin problem, you were supportive and I appreciagte it. > > (BTW ping and dig utilities would be nice!) > > FWIW, XP (and 2k) come with "`cygpath -S`/ping.exe" and > "`cygpath -S`/nslookup.exe". ?? ...Doesn't do _anything_ on my computer! -smile- (Maybe I'd better to a hunt for them as they aren't in my path today.) Richard -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED], 510-567-9957, http://ScienceTools.com/ -- 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/
