Re: mmap call gives invalid argument

["Carlo Florendo" <subscribermail at gmail dot com>]

Sorry, here's cygcheck.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> Good day Cygwin gurus,
>
> I'm trying to run a very tiny app called dmidecode on cygwin
> (http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/dmidecode/dmidecode-2.9.tar.gz).
>  The app is so small it takes 5 seconds for it to compile OOTB.   For
> several years, I've compiled the app on Cygwin on several Pentium
> systems (even using non-updated Cygwin installations) and the thing
> had always worked properly.
>
> This time, I got a mininotebook with a VIA processor and then, when I
> compile dmidecode, it doesn't work properly anymore.  Please let me
> know if this is a Cygwin problem or a dmidecode problem.  I can't give
> you more hardware details since I need dmidecode to get the hardware
> details.  Thus, I'm a bit stuck with a recursive problem here.  Here's
> what I do:
>
> $ tar -zxf dmidecode-2.9.tar.gz
> $ cd dmidecode-2.9
> $ make
> gcc -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual
> -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Winline -Wundef -O2
> -c dmidecode.c -o dmidecode.o
> <snip>
> gcc  dmidecode.o dmiopt.o dmioem.o util.o -o dmidecode
> <snip>
> <snip>
> $ ./dmidecode.exe
> # dmidecode 2.9
> SMBIOS 2.5 present.
> 54 structures occupying 1495 bytes.
> Table at 0x3BEE3000.
>
> /dev/mem: mmap: Invalid argument
>
> Attached is cygcheck -svr.
>
> If you want to see "strace ./dmidecode.exe > strace.out 2>&1", it's on
> the link below:
>
> http://astra.ph/research/carlo/strace.out
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Carlo
> --
> Carlo Florendo
> Software Engineer
> Astra Philippines - Software Development and Outsourcing
> R&D: http://astra.ph, Astra Group: http://astra.co.jp
>



-- 
Carlo Florendo
Software Engineer
Astra Philippines - Software Development and Outsourcing
R&D: http://astra.ph, Astra Group: http://astra.co.jp

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