Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/13/14:35:05
Oh, and all of the 3 test boxes were completely different hardware (nt on a
Boxx tech machine, 2k on an IBM workstation, and XP on a dell laptop).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>
To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: xinted rsync bluescreen
> Don't know if this will help, but I went through 3 machines running init
> and rsync (nt, 2000 and XP) and all of them , at one time or another, I
> could trigger the blue screen by something as innocuous as : ( with rsync
> on) Stop init, rm /etc/rc.d/rsync, exit shell, BSOD. I think it odd that
I
> had this issue even when init was no longer running, and not until I
exited
> the shell. It didn't always happen ( I think it may be related to if
rsync
> had been called at anytime...) but it was nasty enough that in some cases
I
> couldn't even touch the etc/rc.d/rsync file with vim without eventually
> crashing. I'm over my head on this one...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:58 AM
> Subject: Re: xinted rsync bluescreen
>
>
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:59:16AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > Pierre,
> > >
> > > Do you think the handle to /etc that each (is it each or all?) cygwin
> > > process retains is an ingredient in triggering this symptom?
> >
> > AFAICT the handle is opened when starting cygwin and is inherited by
> > child processes. It is used in a WaitForSingleObject call.
> > The purpose is to rescan /etc/{passwd,goup} after changes.
> > It's unlikely to be a coincidence, given the previous e-mails!
> >
> > > Why would that
> > > be and why would it happen to but a few of the many Cygwin users?
> >
> > Good questions! Perhaps init has more subprocesses (wild guess).
> >
> > Pierre
> >
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