On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:43:25PM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote: >On Feb 23, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Dave Korn wrote: > >>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. > >I tried putting the patch in place, and it stopped hanging at the >place I reported. I had print statements to verify that it went >through the section. However, the program still hung at some point. >I tracked down a couple of other GMFN calls that used non-null >handles and tried using the technique that the patch had.
Does the latest snapshot behave any differently? It has a temporary patch which stops cygwin from suspending (for long) when the current IP is in the cygwin DLL itself. 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/
