From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: concurrency problem (crash) of gnuwin32 b18 in nt 4.0 sp3 13 Feb 1998 01:50:17 -0800 Message-ID: <19980213031606.2232.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: fred AT twain DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:08:17 -0500 >From: "Fred T. Hamster" >To: "Jason V. Robertson" >CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: Re: concurrency problem (crash) of gnuwin32 b18 in nt 4.0 sp3 > >this is actually happening with a local install of gnuwin32. i'm running on >a 233 mhz dell here at work and on a 133 mhz gateway at home and they both >exhibit this problem; perhaps the bug was extant in the earlier version but has >been masked by other code until recently, or perhaps it's a nasty race >condition. yuk. Most likely a race problem. The gnuwin32 project is not completely thread safe. The cygwin.dll attempts re-entrancy but I don't think it is complete yet. > >Jason V. Robertson wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, Feb 11, 1998 "Fred T. Hamster" said: >> >> > 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: >> > >> >> We had the same problem some time ago. It went away when we moved the DLL from >> a network drive to the C: drive. Maybe it was just harder to catch the window >> of vulnerability when the DLL was local or something, I don't know. >> >> Jason >> -- >> Jason Robertson >> Ph: 552-0065 > >-- >__________________ chosen by the Nechung Oracle program... __________________ > >Homer: But Marge! I was a political prisoner! >Marge: How were you a political prisoner? >Homer: I kicked a giant mouse in the butt! Do I have to > draw you a picture? > >_____________ 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". > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) SEARCH ENGINES WITH gnu-win32 mail archive RELATED INDICIES: http://www.findmail.com http://www.search.com add gnu-win32 or gnuwin32 to the search criteria. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - 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".