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Re: Maintainer for git?


On Jan 29 15:35, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11:02PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Chris and I discussed this problem further and we applied a patch to the
> > Cygwin DLL which saves and restores the FPU state and XMM registers on
> > 32 bit as well when a thread gets interrupted for signal handling.
> > 
> > For testing I reverted my local OpenSSL to the previous 1.0.1f-1 and
> > tried to fetch the Linux git repo a couple of times without error, so
> > I'm carefully optimistic that we can revert to an SSE2-enabled OpenSSL
> > as soon as we release the next Cygwin version 1.7.28, which is due very
> > soon now.
> > 
> > I'd be grateful if you could do some more testing as well.  Please
> > revert your OpenSSL package to 1.0.1f-1 via setup, and then fetch the
> > latest 2014-01-28 Cygwin snapshot DLL from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/,
> > 
> > With this combination, you should be able to git clone the same as
> > with the SSE2-less OpenSSL.
> 
> I've just tested this -- the clone is failing as expected with the
> current cygwin package from setup-x86.exe, and working just fine with
> the 2014-01-28 snapshot.  I've not tested the snapshot on x86_64, but I
> can try to find time to do that if it'd be useful.

Thanks for testing.  This affects the 32 bit version in the first place,
so there's no rush to test it on 64 bit, afaics.

> I have to say, I'm really impressed with your debugging here!

Thanks :)


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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