X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:02:55 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: strange crashes on invocation Message-ID: <20101001220255.GA1694@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C9B8AC6.9080808@budcat.com> <4C9BB392.9070802@budcat.com> <4C9BE120.1080701@budcat.com> <20100924091712.GA18898@calimero.vinschen.de> <4C9CD24C.1000606@budcat.com> <20100924165747.GB5793@calimero.vinschen.de> <4C9CECB4.1040607@budcat.com> <20100924195422.GA27380@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4CA0B8D3.8020801@budcat.com> <4CA0CBBC.2060202@budcat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA0CBBC.2060202@budcat.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 Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:52:12AM -0500, Heath Kehoe wrote: > > >On 9/27/2010 10:31 AM, Heath Kehoe wrote: >> On 9/24/2010 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:23:48PM -0500, Heath Kehoe wrote: >>>> Well, another difference is the addition of PATH_MAX*2 bytes on the >>>> stack. Those functions do some stack manipulations that I'm having >>>> trouble grokking. Does 'ret' need to be topmost on the stack? >>>> >>>> As a test, I moved the 'ret' definition after that of 'dll_path' (in >>>> std_dll_init). So far with that change, I have not seen the LoadLibrary >>>> fatal error, though I need to test it more to be sure. >>> I've moved some other stuff around in that function. Could you try >>> the latest CVS? >>> >>> cgf >>> >> With your changes, I have not yet encountered any of the error 998 >> failures, and I've run a couple of rebuilds of my project as a stress-test. >> >> Thanks, >> -h > >Ugh! spoke too soon. It happened again: > > 1 [main] bash 5112! C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - >could not load C:\Windows\system32\ws2_32.dll, Win32 error 998 >Stack trace: >Frame Function Args >00288974 6102740B (00288974, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000) >00288C64 6102740B (61179C40, 00008000, 00000000, 6117B997) >00289C94 61004B2B (6117B084, 00289CB0, 00000000, 00000000) >00289EE4 6100136E (61053A2A, 00000154, 00000002, 00000002) > >It's definitely a lot less frequent, though. I truly do not understand why playing with the stack should have any effect but I've added a retry loop to the LoadLibrary call after reading some vague MSDN articles which indicated that it could fail mysteriously. So: How about how? http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html 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