X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C6BDD79.5050307@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:17:45 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100720 Fedora/3.1.1-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.7 lock directory problem References: <4C6B5191.7070602@cygwin.com> <20100818055204.GA19288@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100818085754.GP11340@calimero.vinschen.de> <445852471.20100818142802@mtu-net.ru> <20100818110852.GS11340@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20100818110852.GS11340@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig21A26680E5025638711F4861" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 --------------enig21A26680E5025638711F4861 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/18/2010 05:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Looks like this behaviour is a problem and we should better close the >>> old handle. What to do with the new one? Just set it to NULL and >>> disallow stackdumps as long as we're in a virtual path? Or set it to >>> some well known path, like Cygwin's root? >> >> /var or /tmp would be more sensible. >=20 > Maybe, but it also costs time. /var and /tmp Windows paths have to be > generated by a full path conversion every time you call chdir() to a > virtual directory. > The Cygwin installation path (aka the root dir) is just available. Using / as the fallback during a virtual directory makes sense to me (there may be other permission problems if / is not writable by the current user, but a stack dump is a best effort attempt anyways). --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig21A26680E5025638711F4861 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMa915AAoJEKeha0olJ0NqMe0H/3avgCAgcEplX16wh/tilbWS ukfdqyl/hxBJYmM7XxN6End/oP9e++IhHayoITCCvmAap5XYBjdLA5Y2N/DZ44IR JMKb5tYpCXfJt0B0Tk5CbKlVz8Gh5/AISOQppHfYD1WLwUgcGT9gfXynkaVpO3to 0V9Had4dRIlkINVrzYMYmfT6l5HChEDZ873ifCBc7AFOgAJx2eFfXIqvdRZgN9US oyfJX4MPR89q0bC7i2ZhVK3mc3p9G9O9K45ourk09i70LRBjAwwWebs0IQzNA2KQ p7rVw43C5m5vgcHW6DHM+EfpLrgPDT6Xp1/pXcUN+6VKnJPTs0YAmvxtGBsjAps= =E5M6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig21A26680E5025638711F4861--