X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 15:14:35 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: elusive segfault on latest snapshots Message-ID: <20100801191435.GB6255@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100731172035.GA3617@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <962517.70320.qm@web25505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <962517.70320.qm@web25505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> 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 Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:40:27PM +0000, Marco Atzeri wrote: >--- Sab 31/7/10, Christopher Faylor ha scritto: > >> -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 08:25:42AM +0000, Marco Atzeri >> wrote: >> >>on latest snapshots after 2010-07-07, I am picking >> random segfault >> >>building or configuring several programs >> > >> >Does this mean that 2010-07-07 does not have problems? > >yes, it works fine > >> >> Actually, I'd be particularly interested in knowing if >> 2010-07-18 has >> the problem. > >yes, it has. > >> >> cgf >> > >It is very elusive and it does not happen all the time, >just most of the time; every snapshot segfault in a >different point of the building and some time also >the same snapshot behavior differently. > >I guess is due to some type of race but no clue how to >pin point it. It's sort of a race but it's really more of an incredibly stupid thinko on my part owing to the fact that I "optimized" some of the signal handling. I almost knocked myself with the head slap out when I finally saw the simple problem. This should be fixed in today's snapshot. 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