X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:59:07 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: volunteer solicited (was Re: Possible BSOD from getcwd on WinXP SP3) Message-ID: <20100113155907.GB32366@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B4DED28.5070808@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B4DED28.5070808@gmx.de> 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 Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 04:56:24PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >Am 13.01.2010 16:18, schrieb Henson, George A CTR USA MEDCOM JMLFDC: >> A very deep directory tree called conftest3 >> (conftest3/conftest3/conftest3/...) >> The source for conftest (conftest.c - attached) >> Compiled binary contest.exe >> >> In Cygwin attempting to cd to the bottom of the conftest3 directory tree >> will yield a BSOD. Running conftest.exe will yield a BSOD. A little >> experimentation with conftest.c shows the error happens during the >> creation of the directory tree. The Windows native tools are unable to >> correctly manage the conftest3 tree (I cannot remove it or descend to >> the bottom) >> >> The only information I have been able to get out of the Windows crash >> dumps is the fault happens somewhere in the ntfs.sys driver. > >Might this be simple filesystem corruption? >If so, chkdsk might be your friend - give it a spin. I think we need a BSOD FAQ entry. Anyone want to write one? 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