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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:00:33 +0400
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Subject: Re: Cygwin crashes in kill_pgrp, _pinfo truncation issue.
From: Andrey Khalyavin <halyavin@google.com>
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2012/8/23 Andrey Khalyavin wrote:
>
> I got two more crash dumps from our bots running 20120816 snapshot.
> Both of them crashed in this place. process_state equals to
> PID_IN_USE | PIE_EXECED and your new check in _pinfo::exist is really there.
> So the race condition on process_state field does happens in practice.
>
> Andrey Khalyavin

I removed _pinfo truncation optimization and now all crashes are gone.

Andrey Khalyavin

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