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Re: bash 2.05a command completion spec bug


On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:29:28AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Command completion specs causes bash 2.05a specifically *and* Cygwin
>in general to behave "poorly."  By "poorly," I mean that bash becomes
>unusable after attempting command completion and Cygwin cannot start
>new processes:
>
>$ ps
>C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** mount table size version mismatch detected - 0x11/0x4068.
>You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system.
>Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
>and delete all but the most recent version.  The most recent version *should*
>reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
>installed the cygwin distribution.
>5895398 [main] bash 1648 sync_with_child: child 1560(0x1D4) died before initialization with status code 0x1
>5901389 [main] bash 1648 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp
>bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
>After killing all Cygwin processes, the above problem is cleared.

Sounds like a *bad* problem with a wild pointer in bash.

Anyone interested in tracking this down with gdb?  I know that Corinna
is sort of swamped right now.

cgf

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