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: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:34:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cc: Dave Korn Subject: RE: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > [snip] > > In particular, the fact that you see a SEGV the second time round - > > which is what my analysis above demonstrates should happen if the size > > variable is NOT reinited each time round the loop - makes me think you > > didn't actually test the right code. You better double-check. > > Triple-checked. Your analysis would have been correct for any key but > HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA. Forgot to mention: if I allocate a large enough buffer (~128k), I get a SEGV on the first iteration. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/