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Re: ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off


On Mar  3 21:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> At one point in opendir() a file handler is added to the descriptor
> table.  This happened at a point at which it was already clear that
> opendir would succeed.  Due to my changes from end of January this
> wasn't true anymore.  The entry in the descriptor table was filled
> and *then* opendir tries to open the directory with NtOpenFile.
> This in turn leads to opendir deleting the file handler structure.

...if NtOpenFile fails.

> No problem... until the process exits and Cygwin tries to delete
> the file handler entry again in the cleanup code.  Or, with a lot
> less words:  Cygwin called free twice on the same address.


Corinna

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