Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:26:03 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Failure of  cygwin1.dll-20060529  in W98.
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:17:21AM -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote:
>The snapshot cygwin1.dll-20060529 gives page faults in Windows98 in
>many programs like bash, rxvt, less, sort etc.  In the allert screen of
>Windows:
>                                                       
>RXVT caused an invalid page fault in
>module CYGWIN1.DLL at 0167:61090d09.
>Registers:
>EAX=63d60000 CS=0167 EIP=61090d09 EFLGS=00010202
>EBX=00980000 SS=016f ESP=0097fc48 EBP=0097fc70
>ECX=63d40000 DS=016f ESI=63d40000 FS=3ee7
>EDX=00000001 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
>Bytes at CS:EIP:
>8b 83 14 df ff ff 3d 3f 17 63 c7 74 0c 5a 5b c3 
>Stack dump:
>00000001 00000001 61010aa0 63d47379 63d60000 
>00000000 00000001 00000000 63d40000 8164c0b4
>0097fe38 bff7ddd6 63d40000 00000000 00000001
>00000000 
>
>
>The output of cygcheck -s is attached.

This should be fixed in the latest snapshot.

The problem was due to some of the things that I did to fix the "Cygwin
uses 100% of my CPU" problem.  It was compounded by the "DLL dies
silently" fix, which turns out to have required even more work to
get right.

cgf

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