On Feb 29 13:50, Nigel Hathaway wrote: > After a bit of investigation I have narrowed down the problem. > > Firstly though, the presence of dev nodes is not for the benefit cygwin > or Windows. They are exported over NFS so that an embedded ARM-Linux > system can use the NFS export as its root file system (for development). > This is a very common usage of this kind of facility. It's almost > certainly the main reason why (Linux) dev nodes are supported under > cygwin. Do 'mknod --help' and see what you get !! > > It turns out that the problem relates to one dev node in particular: > > $ chown root.root dev/ptmx > 7 [main] chown 7940 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while > dumping state > (probably corrupted stack) > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I found the cause for this SEGV in Cygwin. Should be fixed in the next release. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
