On Aug 31 19:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: > On 2013-08-31 18:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 31 14:00, Denis Excoffier wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm using Cygwin 32 bits. With the 20130830 snapshot i now get many > >> messages like: > >> " x [main] y z shared_info::initialize: size of shared memory region > >> changed from 27984 to 21776" > >> > >> where x, y and z vary, > >> - x is typically a small integer (most often 2 or 3, but occurrences were > >> observed of: 4, 5, 8, 27, even 311) > >> - y is a program name (tcsh, echo, tr, grep, cut, cat, g++, factor...) > >> - z is a PID > >> > >> The name "main" and the numbers 27984 and 21776 seem always present. > >> > >> It seems that each process initialization would generate a message. > >> Otherwise, all seems OK. > > > > I can't reproduce this. The size of the shared_info changed with my > > tape drive related checkin from 2013-08-26, but your error message > > points to some older process still running, still using the previous > > DLL. Since the shared_info region continues to exist, any newer process > > using the new DLL will find that its idea of the sizeof shared_info > > doesn't match what has been noted in shared_info itself. Nothing else > > can explain this. > You're right, and this is only my fault. After logoff/login i was unable > to reproduce this. In fact, ssh-agent (that i introduced recently in my > profile, and which i normally kill by 'ssh-agent -k', was not > actually killed this time since after the replacement of the cygwin1.dll > launching a new process always fails) is the culprit. I will now always > logoff/login after installing a new snapshot (and also try to > double-check my reports more closely in the future...). > > Sorry for the noise.
No worries, really. Thanks for letting us know. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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