On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:20:44PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >from an strace of XWin > > 63 1636203 [main] Xwin 1404 writev: 1 = write (3, 0x22ED50, 1), errno 2 > 63 1636266 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x120601, supplied_bin > 0x0 > 62 1636328 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: O_TEXT/O_BINARY set in flags > 0x20000 > 62 1636390 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: filemode set to text > 62 1636452 [main] Xwin 1404 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: fd 3: defaulting to text > 64 1636516 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 0 != 3 > 63 1636579 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 1 != 3 > 64 1636643 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 2 != 3 > 64 1636707 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 0 != 3 > 63 1636770 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 1 != 3 > 64 1636834 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 2 != 3 > 63 1636897 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: file was binary now text > 68 1636965 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode: (3</tmp/XWin.log>, 0x20000) returning binary > 65 1637030 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x110601, supplied_bin > 0x0 > 62 1637092 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: O_TEXT/O_BINARY set in flags > 0x10000 > 63 1637155 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: filemode set to binary > 62 1637217 [main] Xwin 1404 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: fd 3: opened as binary > 64 1637281 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 0 != 3 > 63 1637344 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 1 != 3 > 64 1637408 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 2 != 3 > 64 1637472 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 0 != 3 > 64 1637536 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 1 != 3 > 63 1637599 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 2 != 3 > 63 1637662 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: file was text now binary > 64 1637726 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode: (3</tmp/XWin.log>, 0x10000) returning text > 67 1637793 [main] Xwin 1404 writev: writev (3, 0x22ED50, 1) > 63 1637856 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::write: binary write > 72 1637928 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::write: 1 = write (0x100E2033, 1) > 63 1637991 [main] Xwin 1404 writev: 1 = write (3, 0x22ED50, 1), errno 2 > 63 1638054 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x120601, supplied_bin > 0x0 > 63 1638117 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: O_TEXT/O_BINARY set in flags > 0x20000 > 62 1638179 [main] Xwin 1404 fhandler_base::set_flags: filemode set to text > 63 1638242 [main] Xwin 1404 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: fd 3: defaulting to text > 63 1638305 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 0 != 3 > 64 1638369 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 1 != 3 > 64 1638433 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 2 != 3 > 64 1638497 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 0 != 3 > 63 1638560 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 1 != 3 > 64 1638624 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: improbable, but 2 != 3 > 63 1638687 [main] Xwin 1404 setmode_helper: file was binary now text > >and this many, many times. / was mounted in textmode. > >The error does only occur if a second thread is created.
This shows write() being called repeatedly. The fact that setmode_helper shows up a bunch of time doesn't mean that it is caught in a loop. You can't infer that from strace. You'd need to confirm that with gdb. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
