Subject: Re: zsh and status access violation
From: Johannes Mähner <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: cygwin users <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:03:37 +0200

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> You'll have to look at the values of synch[0] and dummy.  My guess is that
> dummy has a 0x0 value which means that your trying to access an invalid memory
> location.  You'll then have to determine why it has the value 0x0 and either
> resolve that or condition the read so that it is called only if dummy has a
> value.

-- sync is two-int array with filedescriptors 
(filled by a pipe statement: "pipe(synch);")
sync[0] = 3
sync[1] = 4

-- dummy is a function-local variable, 
defined as "char dummy;" (one-byte-buffer)

Allocating heap memory instead of using this local-one-byte-buffer
yields the same symptoms.

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