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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:41:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt <matt AT use DOT net>
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To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Want to release 1.3.16
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Matt wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Actually, I didn't know that -- thanks for the tip! :)
> I'll attach in VC++ which should resolve the symbols in system DLLs
> properly.

The hang I was seeing appears to be eliminated by the recent changes to
fix some other program's hangs. I figured the problem wasn't specific to
nessusd. Thanks to Corinna and cgf for checking in fixes!

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http://www.clock.org/~matt


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