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From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: malloc crash
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:56:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211025175646.c558458b7ef6eb4b88dc1dc7@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a4d6675-7e4d-bcb3-9aff-acc0788d211d@cornell.edu>

On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:46:40 -0400
Ken Brown wrote:
> I'm trying to debug the fifo problem reported here:
> 
>    https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-October/249635.html
> 
> To keep my email self-contained, here are the reproduction instructions.  Run 
> the attached script with argument 1000.  The output is supposed to look like this:
> 
> $ ./fifo_test.sh 1000
> Creating 1000 fifo readers...
> Created PID=6503  reading from /tmp/catfifo_0
> FIFO 0
> Created PID=6506  reading from /tmp/catfifo_1
> FIFO 1
> [...]
> Created PID=9506  reading from /tmp/catfifo_998
> FIFO 998
> Created PID=9509  reading from /tmp/catfifo_999
> FIFO 999
> 
> But invariably one of the exec'd cat processes will appear to hang.  (Actually 
> it goes into an infinite loop.)  If you attach gdb to that process and catch it 
> at the right time, you see something like this:

I noticed that this does not occur with 32-bit cygwin.
This occurs only with 64-bit cygwin in my environment.

Does malloc behave differently between 32 and 64 bit cygwin?

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-25  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-24 21:46 Ken Brown
2021-10-25  8:56 ` Takashi Yano [this message]
2021-10-25 13:37   ` Ken Brown
2021-10-25  8:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-25 12:35   ` Ken Brown
2021-10-25 15:39     ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-25 21:29       ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-25 22:02         ` Ken Brown
2021-10-25 23:36           ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-26  0:18             ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-26  0:54               ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-26  8:30                 ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-26  8:52                   ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-26  8:59                     ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-26  9:26                       ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-26  9:31                         ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26  9:28                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26  9:27                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26  9:24           ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26 14:32             ` Ken Brown
2021-10-26 16:03               ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26 16:36                 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-26 16:49                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26 17:10                     ` Ken Brown
2021-10-27  0:44                     ` Takashi Yano
2021-10-27  9:01                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-26 16:44                 ` Takashi Yano

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