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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 23:03:18 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /etc/{passwd,group segv -- can anyone duplicate?
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:24:43AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:23:27 -0700 (PDT)
>>>> Matt <matt AT use DOT net> said:
>
>> I can't repro this on Win2k SP2. I'll boot into win98 tonight and re-test.
>> What was the original platform it was reproduced on and the cygcheck
>> output? (checks list archives..)
>
>You can find the information of the original platform in the
>strace.log. Anyway, I can observe the same problem on NT4.0 Sp6a
>and Win2k SP1 each with Cygwin DLL 1.3.3 and cygwin1.dll built
>from the latest CVS source.
>
>If the problem depends on my platform, the dependence would be
>the size of my /etc/passwd. It contains 39 entries and the size
>is 3897 bytes.

Bingo.  That was enough to trigger the problem for me.

I duplicated the problem and checked in a fix for it.

Thanks, Kazuhiro.  Could you check it now?

I also duplicated the make problem after running a script for
an hour and a half.  Then I mistyped a command in gdb and blew
the debugging session away.

Sigh.

cgf

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