Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: atacama.four-d.de: mail set sender to using -f Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:24:02 +0200 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Sommerzeit?=) From: Thomas Pfaff To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Subject: Re: cygwin-1.3.11-3 Problem with Privoxy (pthreads problem?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: pfaff AT antarctica DOT intern DOT net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:11AM -0500, D. N. Knisely wrote: > > >I don't think that multiple versions of cygwin1.dll is the problem. > > >Coincidentally, this system is a recent clean install of XP without too much > > >built-up crud. I searched and found one extra copy (that came along with > > >xplanet), but that wasn't running. Even after deleting it, the same problem > > >occurs: > > > > > >Jun 25 14:00:31 Privoxy(1628300860) Error: can't fork: No error > > > > > >Further inspection of privoxy suggests that whoever added CYGWIN hooks chose > > >to use threads rather than forking, so it is actually a Posix threads > > >problem. When I disabled Posix thread use (which reverts to using fork), it > > >started working with 1.3.11. Here is the code that no longer works; I have > > >no experience with Posix threads: > > > > > >#if defined(FEATURE_PTHREAD) && !defined(SELECTED_ONE_OPTION) > > >#define SELECTED_ONE_OPTION > > > { > > > pthread_t the_thread; > > > pthread_attr_t attrs; > > > > > > pthread_attr_init(&attrs); > > > pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attrs, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED); > > > child_id = (pthread_create(&the_thread, &attrs, > > > (void*)serve, csp) ? -1 : 0); > > > pthread_attr_destroy(&attrs); > > > } > > >#endif > > > > > >child_id is ending up as -1. Did anything change in this area in 1.3.11? > > > > Yes, actually. Nice catch! > > > I can't reproduce this error neither on NT4 nor on 98, therefore i think > this is a XP related problem. > Please try again with the latest snapshot dll. If it still doesn't work run strace -m thread ./privoxy --no-daemon and send me the error trace. Thomas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/