Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Frank Seide" To: Cc: "'Zhe Feng'" Subject: bug report: cygwin lib can't recover after out of memory Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:54:31 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Hi, I observed cygwin getting into a bad state after a memory-allocation failure, from which I only can recover by terminating all cygwin processes to unload the cygwin1.dll. I run a perl script that gradually allocates memory until the memory limit of 256 MB (default) is reached. Perl, as expected, terminates with "Out of Memory!" However, _after_ the script terminates, subsequently executed cygwin programs have a problem: - a simple "ls" gives Segmentation fault (core dumped) % ls -l ... (works correctly) % ./test.pl <-- script to reach mem limit Out of memory! % ls -l Segmentation fault (core dumped) % - trying to open another rxvt window (while the shell in which the script terminated is still open) shows the msg handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION To recover, I need to exit the shell in which the script terminated first, such that all cygwin processes are gone (and cygwin1.dll gets unloaded, I guess). Thanks, Frank Version info: - This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for cygwin32 - WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 Service Pack 2 - Cygwin DLL version info: dll major: 1003 dll minor: 2 dll epoch: 19 dll bad signal mask: 19005 dll old termios: 5 dll malloc env: 28 api major: 0 api minor: 39 shared data: 3 dll identifier: cygwin1 mount registry: 2 cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions cygwin registry name: Cygwin program options name: Program Options cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix cygdrive default prefix: build date: Sun May 20 23:28:17 EDT 2001 shared id: cygwin1S3 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/