Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/10/16/16:43:28
Dave Korn wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> ModLoad: 75bd0000 75c7a000 C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
>
> Say, what's that doing there? Might like to check who's pulling it in, just
> in case something's gone all win32 on you that shouldn't be.
It appears to be pulled in by winsock2, which is on-demand loaded by
cygwin, so it doesn't show up in the explicit dependencies as reported
by cygcheck. But that's all "behind the cygwin layer" -- the way I've
built gnupg2 and libassuan, they don't go behind cygwin's back to access
windows socket functions directly. They use cygwin functionality for that.
>> ModLoad: 6c1b0000 6c1b5000 C:\Windows\system32\avgrsstx.dll
>
> Let's hope AVG hasn't gone (even further) over to the dark side.
Aw geez. I tried running with AVG both enabled and disabled (but not
uninstalled). There was a difference in the ProcMon output -- obviously
the disabled AVG makes fewer syscalls -- but the gpg-agent behavior was
unchanged.
I guess I'll try to uninstall AVG and see if that makes a difference.
>> which is just after the output window gets:
>> returning from fork: ischild=1, res=0
>>
>> So, this is the right spot. And $eip is 0x0. That doesn't tell me much...
>
> So, the dreaded jump-to-zero. Always a tricky one, since by the time you
> get there you have no idea where you came there from. Except that we suspect
> fork(). I'd set a breakpoint on the start of fork and another one on the ret
> at the end of it, (did you try mingw gdb yet?
Not yet. Chris S. has recently released an updated mingw gdb based on
7.0, but I haven't installed or tested that one yet.
> it might be easier here than
> windbg since it'll understand the symbols, but if you can't get it to work
> then you can manually look up symbol addresses and set the breakpoints by hex
> address),
Well, I did this in windbg (manually setting breakpoints).
Unfortunately, they appeared to have no effect -- after "g", it blew
right past them and into the exception. Maybe I'll have better luck
with mingw-gdb.
First I'm going to rip out a lot of the debugging cruft from my cygwin
DLL, now that I know (part of) it was a wild goose chase.
> and then I'd restart the program, note the value of $esp and verify
> a sane-looking return address on entry to the function, let it run to the end
> of the function and find out if the stack pointer wasn't back at the same
> location or if the return address there had been corrupted.
Ah. Well...that won't actually work. The *parent* is the only one of
the two that actually /enters/ the fork() function in the normal way,
and thus could be expected to have a reasonable return address (and hit
a breakpoint at the beginning of the function).
The child...not so much. It "enters" fork() by way of the longjmp, using
the jmb_buf set by the parent when IT was inside fork(), before the
parent (via a roundabout method) called CreateProcess to create the
child in the first place.
I suppose I could debug both the parent AND the child: since the forkee
should have exactly the same memory layout (and stack trace) once they
return from fork(), I suppose that I could
1) look at the parent's stack trace when it is inside fork(). Ditto
its return address.
2) after the child longjmp's back into fork() from dll_crt0_1,
look at its stack trace and return address. (although I can't
really catch it that early. I can only catch it in the debugger
just after the CYGWIN_FORK_SLEEP...but at least I'm still
back inside fork() at that point.
They ought to match in all respects, correct?
> The second of
> those could potentially be tracked down using a hardware breakpoint
> (watchpoint in gdb terminology), the first of those two would require reading
> the code to see why it's not popping and pushing in equal amounts.
But setjmp and longjmp are nasty black magic assembly generated by
winsup/cygwin/gendef... Ow! Stop! That hurts!
--
Chuck
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