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RE: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4)
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 08:21:49 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4)
- References: <008f01c66e9d$adf5b640$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
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On Wed, 3 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 02 May 2006 22:11, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:59:12PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
> >> Brian Dessent wrote:
> >>> It's a real shame that Russinovich is apparently aware of this
> >>> defect but remains uninterested in dealing with it past calling it a
> >>> Cygwin deficiency.
> >>
> >> Time for a Russinovitch-CGF cage match!
> >>
> >> (First one who tries to debug the problem loses..)
> >
> > If either Corinna or I could reproduce the problem it would be fixed
> > by now.
> >
> > cgf
>
> Attached please find PPAST!
>
> Compile with "gcc -g -O0 -mno-cygwin cygdeath.c -o cygdeath -l ntdll"
>
> Runs with one arg: windows pid of any handy cygwin process, such as
> the shell you've just used to compile it in, or an instance of cat, or
> whatever.
>
> Press any key when it tells you. Watch csrss and chosen cygwin
> process start to thrash.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
[Attachment: cygdeath.c (2KB) deleted]
My only question is: why isn't it using the undocumented WinAPI function
ProcessDropHippo() (the 48-argument version)?
IOW, aren't you on the wrong list for this useful technical discussion?
Igor
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