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Re: Problem with fork() in latest snapshot


On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Nov 10 13:43, Heath Kehoe wrote:
>> I have ruby 1.9.2 which I built from source. It works fine in cygwin
>> 1.7.7 and earlier, but in the current snapshot when it does a fork,
>> the child process dies pretty much instantly.
>> 
>> I've put together a test case (see attached) which replicates what
>> ruby is doing so that this problem can be repro'd without needing to
>> build ruby. It seems that the failure only happens when the fork
>> call is in a dll, and it also seems to depend on manipulating
>> threads in close proximity to the fork.
>> 
>> Here's the test program under 1.7.7:
>> 
>>   $ uname -a
>>   CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 hkehoe1 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686
>>   Cygwin
>>   $ ./testfork
>>   Before fork
>>   After fork pid=5060
>>   After fork pid=0
>>   subprocess status 0 (0x0)
>> 
>> And here it is in the snapshot:
>> 
>>   $ uname -a
>>   CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 hkehoe1 1.7.8s(0.233/5/3) 20101102 14:03:08 i686
>>   Cygwin
>>   $ ./testfork
>>   Before fork
>>   After fork pid=3808
>>   subprocess status 32512 (0x7f00)
>> 
>> 
>> Note the missing 'After fork' message from the child and the -127
>> exit status.
>> 
>> An strace of testfork will reveal this error occurring shortly after
>> the fork returns in the child:
>> --- Process 2944, exception C0000005 at 610E4B8C
>> (the process ID is the child's)
> 
> Would you mind to test which snapshot introduced this problem?

I apologize for the delay, but I've had an abrupt career change (the entire studio was closed down). I had to resubscribe under a new email address.

And I'm using 32-bit Win7 now instead of 64-bit Win7.

But I do have some more information:

-- Beginning with snapshot 20100901, the test program produces no output.
-- Beginning with snapshot 20100926, the test program produces output consistent with the newest snapshots (no output from the child process; child process exits -127)
-- If I run the test program in strace (under any snapshot), it produces correct output and the child exits 0, however I see an exception message in the strace output:
		--- Process 3848, exception C0000005 at 610E114A
		(oddliy, the process ID is that of the parent, not the child)
-- Running the test program in strace under 1.7.7, I also get a similar exception message in the strace output even though the test program appears to work correctly.

-heath



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