On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Matt wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:59:58PM -0800, Matt wrote: > > >On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > >> Should I wait for more ntsec stuff or is it ok to release 1.3.16? > > >> There are a couple of problems I'd like to get resolved in a new > > >> release. > > > > > >I'd like another few days to investigate a hang I'm seeing when running > > >nessus under cygwin. The nessusd and all of it's children hang in > > >libkernel32 somewhere in iname. The culprit that appears to cause the > > >hang is a socket accept() call in the parent process. > > > 'iname' is just a generic name for an unknown location, isn't it? You > > never get useful symbol information from the system DLLs. > > Actually, I didn't know that -- thanks for the tip! :) > I'll attach in VC++ which should resolve the symbols in system DLLs > properly.
The hang I was seeing appears to be eliminated by the recent changes to fix some other program's hangs. I figured the problem wasn't specific to nessusd. Thanks to Corinna and cgf for checking in fixes! -- http://www.clock.org/~matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
