Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/08/18/07:09:08
On Aug 18 14:28, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
> >> >>Do you have a series of steps that produces the problem you see?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >As I said in previous mail.
> >> >1. cd /cygdriver/i ( I is mounted as a usb-stick)
> >> >2. cd /proc 3. Use some tools such as Unlocker to check driver I,
> >> >Unlocker said driver I is locked by bash.
> >> >4. cd / ( / is at d:\cygwin )
> >> >5. do the same as step 3, driver is not locked by bash.
> >>
> >> That's how Cygwin 1.7.5 would work. I would expect different behavior
> >> for 1.7.6.
>
> > No, that's also how 1.7.6 works. I documented this behaviour in
> > path.cc:
>
> > /* Note that we don't set the dir handle to NULL for virtual paths.
> > The handle is used to generate a stackdump file. Since we can't
> > create a stackdump in a virtual path, we have at least *some*
> > directory handle to generate the stackdump in.
>
> > However, note that we have to make sure that we don't use the handle
> > wrongly as soon as we start to use it in other cases as well. */
>
> > Looks like this behaviour is a problem and we should better close the
> > old handle. What to do with the new one? Just set it to NULL and
> > disallow stackdumps as long as we're in a virtual path? Or set it to
> > some well known path, like Cygwin's root?
>
> /var or /tmp would be more sensible.
Maybe, but it also costs time. /var and /tmp Windows paths have to be
generated by a full path conversion every time you call chdir() to a
virtual directory.
The Cygwin installation path (aka the root dir) is just available.
Corinna
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