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 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: Re: cygwin bughunt Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:12:31 +0100 Message-ID: <79F81D5F4790D344B05F489CE2AC8AB7109544@dubexdc03.dubex.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "David Dindorp" To: "Cygwin List" X-Rescan: True X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j0KJDIbw000991 Larry Hall wrote: > I have the following suggestions/questions: > 1. Did you try a Cygwin 1.5.12 or even a snapshot? No. I'm using 1.5.10, and it still smells *real* fresh, I think ;-). Also, the problem only occurs on a customer system which unfortunately I can't go around and upgrade all the time "just to see". I don't have regular access to it either. > 2. Is this a local debug build of Cygwin or stock 1.5.10. If the > latter, you might find building a debug version is more help. Stock 1.5.10. There's a debug version? These are the things I need to know! Found the "how-to-debug-cygwin" document buried deep in some bz2 file, I'll go read that now. In the above statement, you sort-of imply that building a debug version is wrong if using a stock version.. I should do what then? > If there is a race issue here, you're going to need to work with the > code to find it. That's what I'm basically trying to do. Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. But then I'm kinda stuck. Stuff that would be REALLY nice to know would for example be: - How do I find the call parameters to this function when it died? I poked around all the "info locals/variables" etc. commands in GDB and they basically just tell me that there's none to be found. - How do I translate "cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06" to a source file name and a line number? Thank you for the suggestions (please bring more ;-))! /david -- 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/