From: pfay AT acl DOT lanl DOT gov (Patrick J. Fay) Subject: Re: concurrency problem (crash) of gnuwin32 b18 in nt 4.0 sp3 12 Feb 1998 17:44:23 -0800 Message-ID: References: <34E216B5 DOT A82B9CD AT twain DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Fred T. Hamster" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hello Fred Try running the batch file with 'cmd /c test3.bat'. It sounds like a memory leak (memory being allocated and not freed over the course of the loop). Doing 'cmd /c test3.bat' will run each part of the loop once and hopefully free any memory allocated at the end of the loop. your test1.bat worked fine for me (win nt 4.0 sp3, gnu-win32 with coolview) Pat test3.bat: diff a b ls -C cat a >c rm.exe c On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Fred T. Hamster wrote: > i've since been able to reproduce the crash problem i spoke of previously by > running these two programs, each in a different cmd shell: > > test1.bat: > > :start > diff a b > ls -C > cat a >c > rm.exe c > goto :start > > test2.bat: > > :start > diff d e > ls -C > cat a >f > rm.exe f > goto :start > > eventually one or the other will exhibit the messy crash and stack trace i > mentioned. > i know this seems like going out of my way to find a bug, but the existence > of this bug disallows reliable multi-tasking of gnuwin32 programs. this is > unfortunate. > -chris > > -- > __________________ chosen by the Nechung Oracle program... __________________ > > All's self-revealing, void and clear, > Without exerting power of mind. > > _____________ not necessarily my opinions, not necessarily not. _____________ > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > Patrick Fay, Ph.D., Intel Corp. email: pfay AT co DOT intel DOT com Los Alamos National Lab wk: (505) 665-9141 CTI M.S. B296 fax: (505) 667-5921 Los Alamos NM 87545 ASCI-RED http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~pfay/teraflop - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".