X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FFD12E6.8030103@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:45:10 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120429 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Potential BLODA reported for smartctl due to WMI calls Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 If smartctl is run for an USB drive, a potential BLODA is reported: # uname -sr CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.15(0.260/5/3) # echo $CYGWIN detect_bloda # /usr/sbin/smartctl -i /dev/sdb smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-pc-cygwin-win7(64)-sp1] (cygwin-5.42-1) ... Potential BLODA detected! Thread function called outside of Cygwin DLL: C:\Windows\system32\wbem\wbemprox.dll Potential BLODA detected! Thread function called outside of Cygwin DLL: C:\Windows\syswow64\OLE32.dll === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda ES.2 Device Model: ST31000340NS ... smartctl uses WMI queries to retrieve USB Id for physical drive. This is used to auto-detect ATA pass-through protocol provided by USB bridge. Could these two DLLs possibly be added to the list of well known DLLs? Christian -- 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