X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:01:10 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: BLODA detection code in latest snapshot Message-ID: <20120229150110.GA20306@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20120227122614 DOT GB31025 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4F4E3B6C DOT 1080607 AT cs DOT utoronto DOT ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F4E3B6C.1080607@cs.utoronto.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Feb 29 09:51, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 27/02/2012 7:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > > > >I've just uploaded a new snapshot "2012-02-27 12:04:23 UTC". It > >contains two code snippets which are supposed to help diagnosing BLODA > >problems. > > > >If you set the environment variable CYGWIN to "detect_bloda" and then > >start a Cygwin process (bash or so), then Cygwin will detect two types > >of anomalies: > >[...] > Would it be a good idea to update the FAQ's bloda entry with this > info? Sure, it's probably going to give occasional false positives > and/or negatives, but it would definitely catch the obvious cases > and give a quick test for claims of bloda-free systems. You'd almost > want a new cygcheck -b option that could fork off a process or two > with detect_bloda active and capture any output that results. Of course I will document this at one point. So far I just didn't. I doubt that the cygcheck -b would be useful, though. Just call $ export CYGWIN=detect_bloda some_executable and you get what you want. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple