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Re: xinted rsync bluescreen


Don't know if this will help,  but I went through 3 machines running init
and rsync (nt, 2000 and XP)  and all of them , at one time or another, I
could trigger the blue screen by something as innocuous as :  ( with rsync
on) Stop init, rm /etc/rc.d/rsync, exit shell,  BSOD.  I think it odd that I
had this issue even when init was no longer running,  and not until I exited
the shell.  It didn't always happen ( I think it may be related to if rsync
had been called at anytime...) but it was nasty enough that in some cases I
couldn't even touch the etc/rc.d/rsync file with vim without eventually
crashing.  I'm over my head on this one...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: xinted rsync bluescreen


> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:59:16AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Pierre,
> >
> > Do you think the handle to /etc that each (is it each or all?) cygwin
> > process retains is an ingredient in triggering this symptom?
>
> AFAICT the handle is opened when starting cygwin and is inherited by
> child processes. It is used in a WaitForSingleObject call.
> The purpose is to rescan /etc/{passwd,goup} after changes.
> It's unlikely to be a coincidence, given the previous e-mails!
>
> > Why would that
> > be and why would it happen to but a few of the many Cygwin users?
>
> Good questions! Perhaps init has more subprocesses (wild guess).
>
> Pierre
>
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