On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 07:19:45PM +0100, hu...@free.fr wrote: >Some more info about that infinite loop in cygwin1.dll . > >This is indeed inside the cygheap_fixup_in_child function of cygwin1.dll . > >Inside this function, there is a loop that is: > >for (_cmalloc_entry *rvc = cygheap->chain; rvc; rvc = rvc->prev) { > ... >} > >In the case of my sh.exe process , this loop never ends because it is stuck >with an "rvc" pointer that is such that "rvc->prev == rvc" > >I'm not sure what to look at, is there a chance that this is an "easy" bug to >fix ?
Not unless you can provide a reproducible test case. If this is memory corruption that's rarely an easy bug to track down. It isn't clear why you can't use gdb to debug this, btw. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple