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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:30:19 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Matt <matt AT use DOT net>
Cc: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Want to release 1.3.16
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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:59:58PM -0800, Matt wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Should I wait for more ntsec stuff or is it ok to release 1.3.16?
>> There are a couple of problems I'd like to get resolved in a new
>> release.
>
>I'd like another few days to investigate a hang I'm seeing when running
>nessus under cygwin. The nessusd and all of it's children hang in
>libkernel32  somewhere in iname. The culprit that appears to cause the
>hang is a socket accept() call in the parent process.

'iname' is just a generic name for an unknown location, isn't it?  You
never get useful symbol information from the system DLLs.

I have no idea what nessus is or why this would be considered a show
stopper.  AFAIK there hasn't been any new networking changes since
1.3.15.

cgf