Re: Please test the latest snapshot!

[Eric Blake <ericblake at comcast dot net>]

> >This should be fixed in the latest snapshot.  Please check it out.
> >
> >You just have to replace the dll and nothing else.
> >
> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> Did anyone test this?  This snapshot fixes some memory corruption
> introduced by the recent change to reduce the size of some in-memory
> filename structures.

I'm still seeing some weird stuff in the latest snapshot.  This is
a fresh install, with nothing other than the Base category + git,
and substituting just cygwin1.dll.

$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/libsigsegv.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/eblake/libsigsegv/.git/
fatal: write error (Socket operation on non-socket)
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 eblake 1.7.0s(0.212/5/3) 20090804 00:31:58 i686 Cygwin

Running the above through strace generates more than half a
megabyte, but the point where 'errno 108' occurs in the trace
is shortly after a call to dup2(3,4), so there may still be
some memory corruption impacting the fd table across forks.

-- 
Eric Blake

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