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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:26:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: setup hangs during postinstall
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Can you attach to a hanging cygpath process with strace and post the
> output?
>
I would, but:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00114.html

I had limited success debugging this with an older Cygwin CVS built DLL
(probably around 1.5.3).  It showed an error accessing the pinfo (SEGV).
Sorry, no more detail right now.

My current CVS compiled Cygwin DLL causes this in gdb which makes
debugging this pretty impossible for me:

$ gdb ./strace
GNU gdb 2003-09-20-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x403780: file ../../../../cygwin/winsup/utils/strace.cc, line 900.
(gdb) r -p 1816
Starting program: /home/ford/strace.exe -p 1816
Error creating process /home/ford/strace.exe, (error 5)

(gdb) quit

ford AT sybilxpc ~
$ net helpmsg 5

Access is denied.

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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