On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 12:00:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:52:59PM +0100, Chris January wrote: >>> Hello Chris, >>> >>> Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 12:21:42 AM, you wrote: >>> >>> CJ> Will this package actually appear on the mirrors in future or are >>there >>> CJ> issues I am not aware of preventing this from happening? >>> >>> Have you tried running the procps tools on current stock dll >>> (1.3.12-1) ? For me most of them seem to just hang - top, procps, >>> uptime, vmstat, w... havent tried the others. >>> >>> Maybe this problem corelates with the fact that some of the /proc >>> files no longer contain information - see below: >>> Perhaps it has to do something with your last patch. I don't have time >>> to look at this right now though. I can send strace if you want. >>> >>> The procps tools I'm using were downloaded from your site following >>> their anouncement on cygwin-apps. >>This is caused by the default alignment changing from 4 bytes to 8 bytes, as >>far as i can tell. Basically the size of structure passed to the NT system >>calls is not the size of structure the call expects, so it fails and the >>program (top, uptime, etc.) gets stuck in a loop trying to read data. >>I did add macros to ntdll.h to make sure the structures were aligned >>correctly, but then Chris changed the alignment back so I removed them. I >>shall let Chris comment on this. > >Huh? What alignments have I changed? Pointers please.
I suspect that this must have something to do with binutils. I changed the alignments at David Billinghurst's suggestion to accommodate java. If this is causing problems, however, I'll change them back. cgf
