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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 20:27:32 -0500
From: Mark Blackburn <marklist AT fangorn DOT ca>
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Brian Ford wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Mark Blackburn wrote:
> 
> 
>>No it isn't. I recently tried my own build of cygwin:
>>
> 
> Could you possibly build it with the attached patch and report the strace
> output?  Also, if you could scan cygwin/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt,
> it will tell you how to get a working gdb to debug this.  The output of
> info dll would be interesting.  Thanks.
> 
> 

Unfortunately the failure doesn't occur when things (gdb & cygstart) are run under strace. 
Here's the output when run normally:

beth AT althor ~
$ cygstart
       8 [main] ? 1416 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 53234884 bytes of space 
for cygwin's heap (0x616C0000 <0x410000>) in child, Win32 error 487
    5894 [main] ? 1416 cygheap_fixup_in_child: m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress 
0x616C0000, m.RegionSize 0x1AC0000, m.State 0x10000
E:\cygwin\bin\cygstart.exe (1416): *** blocking m.AllocationBase 0x63180000, m.BaseAddress 
0x63180000, m.RegionSize 0x1000, m.State 0x1000


beth AT althor ~
$ gdb
       4 [main] ? 1444 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 53234884 bytes of space 
for cygwin's heap (0x616C0000 <0xAD0000>) in child, Win32 error 487
    6216 [main] ? 1444 cygheap_fixup_in_child: m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress 
0x616C0000, m.RegionSize 0x1AC0000, m.State 0x10000
E:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe (1444): *** blocking m.AllocationBase 0x63180000, m.BaseAddress 
0x63180000, m.RegionSize 0x1000, m.State 0x1000


beth AT althor ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 althor 1.5.10(0.113/4/2) 2004-04-02 19:54 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin


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Mark Blackburn



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