From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Exim & cygwin-2.6.0-1 (x86) fatal Signal 6 on start
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170109130358.GA843@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <586C438A.1060206@alum.mit.edu>
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On Jan 3 19:36, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
> On 9/12/2016 8:26 AM, Ross Hemingway wrote:
> > Update to cygwin-2.6.0-1. Exim has a fatal start error - exim: PID
> > 3756: service `exim' failed: signal 6 raised.
> >
> > Rolled back to cygwin-2.5.2-1, problem averted.
> >
>
> Sorry for the very long delay in answering.
> The debugging below was done from a non-privileged account, and the
> setuid32() should thus fail, but the program should not abort.
>
> It aborts in the call to "free (privs)".
> "privs" are obtained by get_priv_list().
> When the target user is SYSTEM, get_priv_list() returns (PTOKEN_PRIVILEGES)
> &sys_privs;
> where "sys_privs" is a constant structure that cannot be freed.
Thanks for the analysis. I pushed a fix.
Corinna
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2016-09-12 12:26 Ross Hemingway
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