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Re: New 64 bit Cygwin DLL (was Re: [Cygwin64] dash segfault)
On Mar 15 16:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I just uploaded a new 64 bit Cygwin package 1.7.18-7.
>
> I'm carefully hopeful that this finally fixes the random crashes we all
> encountered in various scenarios. Today it occured to me that all "my"
> crashes happen in forked processes. I discussed this with Kai and while
> looking into this issue, Kai pointed out that the pseudo relocator might
> be called too late in a forked child. That seemed to be exactly our
> issue, since the too-late call would end up relocating already relocated
> data, so data and bss segment might contain random pointers in a forked
> child.
>
> After moving the call to an earlier point, the crashes were gone. While
> on the way, I also added a few other changes, mostly centered around
> reliability issues, as well as stack alignment issues in the
> auto-generated assembler code.
>
> So I'd like to urge you to update to the latest 1.7.18-7 package and try
> your various scenarios again over the weekend.
Or not. Please wait a while. I'll upload a -8 package soon. I found
an issue with perl right after uploading and I have a strange problem
with bash right now. Talk about reliability changes... sigh.
Corinna
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