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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:23:18 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fork on win95
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:29:41AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:31:00AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:12:10PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >values (stdin, stdout and stderr, probably). Then the normal `ps' output
>> >appears. Generally, the above ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE output appears,
>> >then everything works fine. That's also valid for the aforementioned
>> >ssh session. As usual nothing happens when started under strace control.
>> 
>> And, as usual, this would call for some debugging with gdb.
>
>Hmmpf, just had a first try. I tried a `gdb -nw /bin/sh' and then
>a `r -c ps'. It crashes reproducable in check_valid_pointer() called
>from pthread_mutex_lock() stuff called from read_etc_passwd().
>Before reaching main(), of course.

It always gets a SIGSEGV there now.  You just have to continue past it.

cgf