Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/13/17:27:18
Hey Chris,
For the record, I tried this. No dice. Tried rebaseall with Cygwin
1.5.7, then with the latest snapshot at the time (20040306), and as I
mentioned in my original post, I even used a modified version of
rebaseall to rebase the DLLs generated by Jabberd (which are run from
their build directories, not /usr/bin, etc.). None of that worked.
I see your name on the list quite a bit, and you seem to be one of the
key guys "in the know." Can you possibly explain to me what the error
usually indicates? I mean, beyond the rebaseall, what exactly are we
talking about? A forked process trying to get loaded into an
overlapping spot in memory, something like that? I'm really trying to
_understand_ this, as I'd like to get to the bottom of it.
I just looked and noticed that there's another snapshot out there. I'll
give that a whack this week, but I won't hold my breath. Like I wrote
initially, this same error occurred when I tried this back in Nov2003,
and it's still there (across 4+ different versions of Cygwin so far).
As no other programs exhibited this issue (I run PostgreSQL under Cygwin
quite regularly, for example), I find it hard to believe that rebaseall
is the answer to everything. I'd really like to dig a little deeper if
anyone can point me in the right direction. I've nailed it down to the
fork() call using gdb, but don't really know what I can possibly do at
this point. I've kind of hit my current knowledge limit in this area.
(But I'm more than willing to expand that if I know where to look. ;-) )
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:28:02AM -0500, Frank Seesink wrote:
>
>>Basically, no, I haven't been able to reproduce it outside of Jabberd.
>>
>>Then again, I don't have a lot of custom source to compile/use. My
>>simple test program (the one which loaded a DLL which in turn did a
>>fork()) worked fine, but that was an uber-simple app.
>>
>>Jabberd fires up multiple threads/processes with more than one
>>fork()/spawn_() call prior to reaching the dnsrv module where the final
>>fork() breaks the camel's back as it were.
>
>
> For the record, this problem usually indicates the need to run 'rebaseall'.
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