From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.17.1-3
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 22:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5543E4AC.5010304@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5543E14A.1010802@cornell.edu>
On 01/05/2015 21:25, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/1/2015 2:19 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> On 01/05/2015 13:43, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 5/1/2015 7:56 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>> On 30/04/2015 23:19, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> I'm finding, on three different 64-bit Cygwin systems, that the server
>>>>> dies shortly after starting. I'm attaching XWin.0.log from one of
>>>>> them.
[...]
>>
>> I don't quite understand why cygwin's exception processing doesn't then
>> catch that exception and raise a SIGSEGV.
>>
>> However, I did a bit more staring at the changes in 1.17.1-3 and I did
>> find a nasty bug in some code which uses the heap. I've uploaded a
>> snapshot [1] with a possible fix, please test that if you can.
>
> That fixes it. Thanks.
No problem. Thanks for testing, and thanks for reporting the bug!
I've uploaded 1.17.1-4 with this fix.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-29 18:10 Jon TURNEY
2015-04-30 22:19 ` Ken Brown
2015-05-01 11:57 ` Jon TURNEY
2015-05-01 12:43 ` Ken Brown
2015-05-01 18:51 ` Jon TURNEY
2015-05-01 20:38 ` Ken Brown
2015-05-01 22:39 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
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