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Subject: Re: 20040214 no fix for unzip, cygwin debugging howto?
From: Thomas L Roche <tlroche AT us DOT ibm DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:01:10 -0500
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Christopher Faylor Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:12:02 -0500
> it occurred to me that I could add some increased debugging which
> might show why cmalloc was returning NULL.

How thoughtful of you.

> So, the next snapshot will have more strace output for the failing
> condition, meaning that if you do this:

>   strace -o strace.out unzip whatever

> it should produce a large strace file.  The only interesting output for
> now would come from the _csbrk function which will have words like
> "couldn't commit memory for cygwin heap..." in it.

> If you are interested in tracking this down, please send the information
> from that line here.

Unfortunately 20040215 came out while I was debugging 20042014. Since
you claim to have done anything that might have actually fixed the
problem, the results obtained at

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00705.html

are still relevant.

Christopher Faylor Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:36:44 -0500
> To be perfectly frank, your inability to figure anything out here
> seems to illustrate that you will not be able to provide any useful
> debugging details. Maybe you should do yourself a favor, standardize
> on 1.5.5 and just give up. If building and debugging is beyond your
> current skills then it's not likely that you'll be providing any
> useful feedback anytime soon.

"To be perfectly frank," your insolence is egregious; it will be
addressed separately.


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