X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:11:38 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] getaddrinfo failure Message-ID: <20090327151138.GD12738@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 27 14:32, Eric Blake wrote: > The coreutils testsuite includes a test of getaddrinfo (simplified slightly > before attaching here), and it is failing for me on a Windows XP machine (I > don't have access to Windows Vista to see if it behaves any better there). I > have not yet built a debugging cygwin1.dll to try to figure out where the > EFAULT is resulting from, but it seems like this is probably a bug in cygwin > itself, as the testcase looks like it is calling everything with proper > pointers. Fixed in CVS. My code checked hints' contents without checking if hints is a NULL pointer. Incredible that this never happened with any other application before. Thanks for the testcase. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/