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RE: Postmaster core dumps
- From: "Novaelec" <info at novaelec dot es>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 18:14:52 +0200
- Subject: RE: Postmaster core dumps
Hi!
Well, I'm a newbie in many senses and I can't help you to solve the problem
arrived at this point :'(
Who made the last version of "cygwin"?
Bye!
On Aug 3 17:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 3 17:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Aug 3 17:17, Novaelec wrote:
>> > Hello Corinna,
>> >
>> > I think the problem is in cygserver because the bug is related to
>semaphores
>> > when I use gdb. [...]
>>
>> Sorry to say that, but to me it looks like a bug in postmaster. Looking
>> into the stacktrace printed when the SEGV occurs, I'm getting this:
>>
>> $ addr2line -e /bin/cygwin1.dll 610D6127 610028FE 610173A9 61017A6E
>61017D1F 6109E76C 610942FF
>> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/newlib/libc/machine/i386/memset.S:45
>> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/cygheap.cc:331
>> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:375
>> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:486
>> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:532
>> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc:127
>>
>> This is the stacktrace of a dup() call on the tty slave descriptor. It
>> looks like a heap corruption to me. It has certainly nothing to do with
>> semaphores.
>
>FYI, I tracked the problem down to a point that I can savely say,
>it's neither a bug in postgresql, nor in cygserver. It has nothing
>to do with semaphores. As noted above, it's a heap problem, but
>it's entirely inside Cygwin. Unfortunately I have no fix so far.
>For the curious, it's reproducible with
>
> int fd;
> for (;;)
> fd = dup (0);
>
>
>Corinna
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