On 23 February 2006 16:20, Peter Rehley wrote:
> Yeah, I saw that change, and I tried yesterdays snapshot but it still
> hung. I also did some more googling and found that someone submitted
> a patch a few years ago. The patch checked to see if it was inside
> the ntdll.dll by looking at the handle.
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q2/msg00004.html
>
> I found this google too.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/28/63880.aspx
>
> I'm going to try that patch today and see what happens. Christopher
> didn't apply it because it was a bandage and didn't really fix the
> bigger problem.
That all fits right in with your diagnosis of the problem; a deadlock of
some kind I guess is the only thing that could make GetModuleFileName hang.
Have you got a stack backtrace showing the call chain when this problem
arises?
We may be able to come up with a substitute for GMFN that would solve the
problem.
cheers,
DaveK
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