X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:22:34 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.0-60: diff -qr crashes Message-ID: <20090901142234.GE16845@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A9D2922.3090807@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A9D2922.3090807@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:01:06PM +0200, Torsten Sch?tze wrote: >Hi, > >I've installed Cygwin Beta 1.7.0 (version -51) around mid of July. >Currently, version -60 is installed. Now (at least since version -53 or >so) I repeatedly encounter a bug with diff (diffutils 2.8.7-1). I use >diff to compare my working directory with the files on an usb stick. The >exact command line is > >diff -qr . /cygdrive/w/user/schuetze/work/2009 > >Note that the 32 GByte usb stick (cygdrive w) is encrypted with >truecrypt 6.2a and formatted as FAT32. (Don't know if this matters. But >the error occurs with other directories as well.) > >Depending on the exact place in the file system I'll get a core dump >immediately or first some errors and then the core dump. > >bash-3.2$ pwd >/cygdrive/e/user/schuetze/work/2009 >bash-3.2$ diff -qr . /cygdrive/w/user/schuetze/work/2009 > 1 [main] diff 2376 sig_send: error sending signal -34 to pid 2376, >pipe handle 0x750, Win32 error 998 >Segmentation fault (core dumped) I guess this is my excuse to roll a new version of Cygwin. Since Corinna doesn't include the .dbg file in her releases, I can't decode the stack traces from the attached .stackdump files. Or, hmm. It guess it would be better if I released a snapshot before a new release. Could you try to duplicate this with today's snapshot from: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ I'm generating it now. Please wait for the September 1 snapshot to show up before trying anything. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple