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Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:04:27 -0500
From:	Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Brian Ford wrote:

> I put a call to try_to_debug in find_winsock_errno when it returned the
> default EPERM.  Then, by setting
> CYGWIN="error_start=c:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe" I can get a gdb pop up and do a
> back trace.  The error was:
>
> 10093
> Either the application has not called WSAStartup, or WSAStartup failed.
>
> and came from the socket call in cygwin_socket.
>
> So, given this is some sort of race condition, how do I debug the autoload
> code and find out if WSAStartup was actually called or if it failed?

Ok, I put another try_to_debug call in wsock_init just inside the if
(!wsock_started).  Sometimes I hit it first and the socket call succeeds.
But, sometimes I hit the one above first and the socket call fails.  In
the later case, wsock_started=1.  Any idea how that could happen?

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...

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