On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:44:19PM +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. >> >> >> >That's what I was referring to. >> > >> Is it possible for you to work around this? I believe the alignment >> change is necessary for a working libgcj/gcj suite. It would be nice to >> have both working properly... >I can, but it's messy and I don't know how many other windows structures are >affected.
Can you give an example of how you fixed things in this case? cgf
