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Re: cygwin 1.78 errors when invoking terminator (*** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6. Terminating.)


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 02:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar ?2 18:01, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>> ? I get the following error output when opening a terminator (enclosed
>> at bottom of the email).
>>
>> ? This is the jessies.org terminator, not the gnome terminator.
>>
>> ? Now I don't get the following when I open a cygwin prompt.
>>
>> ? So I thought it might be a terminator thing.
>>
>> ? I had just updated to 1.78 of Cygwin.
>>
>> ? So updated to the most current version of terminator.
>>
>> ? Same problem.
>>
>> ? So I posted to the terminator email list (terminator-users@googlegroups.com).
>>
>> ? The terminator developer/maintainer was able to reproduce the
>> problem and thinks that the error is within cygwin and suggests this
>> patch (between the splat-asterisk lines).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wolcott
>>
>> *&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&
>>
>> I wouldn't like to claim this is the right fix but it lets that
>> trivial example link:
>>
>> $ gcc strerror.c
>>
>> $ diff -u /usr/include/string.h.orig /usr/include/string.h
>> --- /usr/include/string.h.orig? 2011-03-02 10:49:29.510836800 -0800
>> +++ /usr/include/string.h?????? 2011-03-02 10:50:04.324450800 -0800
>> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
>> ?char??? *_EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t));
>> ?#else
>> ?# ifdef __GNUC__
>> -int????? _EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t)) __asm__ ("__xpg_strerror_r");
>> +int????? _EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t)) __asm__
>> ("___xpg_strerror_r");
>> ?# else
>> ?int????? _EXFUN(__xpg_strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t));
>> ?#? define strerror_r __xpg_strerror_r
>> $
>
> Thanks for the report. ?I just fixed that in CVS. ?The problem here
> is that we have to take several targets into account, some of them
> using a labe lprefix, some of them not. ?I applied a patch which
> does that:
>
> ?int????? _EXFUN(strerror_r,(int, char *, size_t)) __asm__ (__ASMNAME ("__xpg_strerror_r"));
>
> The __ASMNAME macro is now defined in cdefs.h. ?I tested to build
> a testcase which calls the POSIX version of strerror_r and it now
> works fine. ?Well, there was a small bug in __xpg_strerror_r, too,
> but that should be fixed in CVS as well. ?I'll create a new developer
> snapshot later today.
>
>
> Thanks again,
> Corinna


Hi Corinna;

The problem seems to be fixed now (after a recent update).

uname.exe -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 KWOLCOTT-T61 1.7.8(0.236/5/3) 2011-03-01 09:36 i686 Cygwin

Thank you.

Ken Wolcott

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