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Re: ntsec: patch 9
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> Thanks. Applied.
>
> Does the new snapshot still fail for you when you issue the
> 'man tcsh' command?
>
> cgf
Hi Chris,
unfortunately the answer is `yes'. I have found, that this behaviour
is not reproducable beyond winsup-990726!
Notice, that this happens regardless of the ntsec setting.
winsup-990726 itself shows the behaviour:
tcsh> man tcsh
shows man page, then pressing `q' in `less' results in:
0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1029 sig_send: error sending
signal(-3) to pid 1029, Win32 error 6
Error 6 is `illegal handle'.
Since winsup-990801 it's worse than before:
tcsh> man tcsh
... results in:
/usr/local/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
/usr/local/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
... and after pressing `q':
0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1029 sig_send: error sending
signal(-3) to pid 1029, Win32 error 6
If I try to run it with strace, I get the following on stderr:
strace.exe: couldn't get message length from subprocess,
windows error 6
If, for example, the complete winsup directory is up to date,
starting `make' results in:
make[1]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup'
Making all in regexp...
make[2]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/regexp'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/regexp'
--> 0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1009 sig_send: error sending
signal(-3) to pid 1009, Win32 error 6
make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup'
make[1]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup'
Making all in mingw...
--> 0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1016 sig_send: error sending
signal(-3) to pid 1016, Win32 error 6
make[2]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/mingw'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/mingw'
Making all in utils...
make[2]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/utils'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/utils'
--> 0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1020 sig_send: error sending
signal(-3) to pid 1020, Win32 error 6
make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup'
Let's talk about what happens: It's in EVERY case /bin/sh, that
fails! In my environment, /bin/sh is bash. Regardless of the
circumstances, it's only bash, that produces this error.
If you look into the message, you will see, that it fails to
work on a handle that references the calling process itself.
I have attached the strace output of the above `make' example. It was
compiled with -DDEBUGGING. I fear, it's not very useful because as
ever when I try to strace the phenomenon, I get:
strace.exe: couldn't get message length from subprocess,
windows error 6
Hopeful,
Corinna
make.strace.bz2