Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: suspicious code in dtable::dup2 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:12:08 -0400 Lines: 6 Message-ID: <3D176F08.6060800@hekimian.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024945911 10179 206.205.138.10 (24 Jun 2002 19:11:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:11:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Looking at dtable::dup2 in dtable.cc, it appears that it is possible to lock the fd list resource then exit the function without unlocking it. Which presumably could cause a hang sometime later. Joe Buehler -- 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/