Subject: Re: xinted rsync bluescreen
From: Danilo Turina <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:31:15 +0100

Yes!!!!! Finally someone found the problem with writing in /etc and BSOD!!!!
Thank you very much!

Dan Holmsand wrote:
> Update:
> 
> I have now tested my hacked cygwin1.dll (without the 
> FindFirstChangeNotification of "/etc" stuff) quite extensively, on three 
> different machines that previously experienced quite frequent BSODs when 
> init was running.
> 
> No BSODs so far!
> 
> Thus, it seems quite obvious to me that the code in 
> init_cygheap::etc_changed is to "blame"; it must trigger some obscure 
> windows bug that sometimes causes a bsod when files under /etc are 
> accessed.
> 
> /dan
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Holmsand wrote:
> 
>> That seems to be it!  [touching wood]
>>
>> I added a "return 0" at the top of init_cygheap::etc_changed() (so 
>> that the whole FindFirstChangeNotification/DuplicateHandle business 
>> never happens). So far, no crashes - despite my best efforts running 
>> chkconfig rsync on/off, /sbin/telinit 3/1.
>>
>> Thanks for the hint!
>>
>> /dan
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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