From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: fix off-by-one in dup2
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131204194441.GB16301@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131204175108.GB2590@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Dec 4 12:51, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:23:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Dec 4 12:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 01:04:08PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >On Dec 4 12:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >> On Dec 4 10:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >> > Hi guys,
> >> >> > [...etc...]
> >> >> > The problem is still present in the current sources.
> >> >> > [...]
> >> >
> >> >Ouch, ouch, ouch! I tested the wrong DLL. Actually current CVS fixes
> >> >this problem. Duh. Sorry for the confusion.
> >> >
> >> >One question, though. Assuming start is == size, then the current code
> >> >in CVS extends the fd table by only 1. If that happens often, the
> >> >current code would have to call ccalloc/memcpy/cfree a lot. Wouldn't
> >> >it in fact be better to extend always by at least NOFILE_INCR, and to
> >> >extend by (1 + start - size) only if start is > size + NOFILE_INCR?
> >> >Something like
> >> >
> >> > size_t extendby = (start >= size + NOFILE_INCR) ? 1 + start - size : NOFILE_INCR;
> >> >
> >> >?
> >> >
> >> >Sorry again. Fortunately it's my WJM week...
> >>
> >> I don't think it is a common occurrence for start >= size. It is
> >> usually done when something like bash dup2's stdin/stdout/stderr to a
> >> high fd. Howeer, I'll check in something which guarantees that there is
> >> always a NOFILE_INCR entries free after start.
> >
> >That might be helpful. Tcsh, for instance, always dup's it's std
> >descriptors to the new fds 15-19. If it does so in this order, it would
> >have to call extend 5 times.
>
> dtable.h:#define NOFILE_INCR 32
>
> It shouldn't extend in that scenario. The table starts with 32
> elements.
Right. I just thought it's a good example.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-04 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 23:26 Eric Blake
2013-10-15 14:06 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-15 20:45 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2013-10-15 22:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-16 7:40 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2013-11-23 13:19 ` Eric Blake
2013-12-04 9:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-04 11:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-04 12:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-04 17:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-12-04 17:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-04 17:51 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-12-04 19:44 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2013-12-05 13:45 ` Eric Blake
2013-12-05 19:56 ` Christopher Faylor
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