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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:54:43 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: MapViewOfFileEx errors with cygwin-1.5.10-3 and gnome apps (potential shm problem?)
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:41:10PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>BTW, before you spend a lot of effort on debugging, here's a WAG: do you
>use cygserver?  If so, did you reboot and/or restart cygserver after you
>upgraded?  The above looks like a shared memory error, and shared memory
>is part of cygserver functionality...  I know you said that you don't have
>multiple Cygwin DLLs in your path, but if you renamed your old cygwin1.dll
>before replacing it with the snapshot one, it may be possible that you
>have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll *in memory*.  Same goes for other
>services, FWIW.

This is a pretty good WAG, FWIW.  This error is coming from
fixup_shms_after_fork, a cygserver routine, and it is unlikely that my
changes would affect this.

cgf

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