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Re: Possible bug in strace functionality (or CVS)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Possible bug in strace functionality (or CVS)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:54:14 -0400
- References: <CAEIIBEHOJELFDAHENHIEENLCEAA.neil.erskine@jjmackay.ca>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:38:10AM -0300, Neil Erskine wrote:
>I find that the attached script fails on Windows 98 and Windows 200 when
>running Cygwin 1.3.2 with CVS 1.11. A core dump occurs in the "strace cvs
>commit" line. Removing the "strace" term allows the script to run to
>completion. I hope that someone with greater familiarity with how strace
>works will be able to take a look at it.
>
>The strace shows that an open call succeeds, and an uncaught exception
>occurs after the open returns.
There is nothing magic about strace. It is just a bunch of printfs. If
it is core dumping, then something is probably passing an invalid
pointer to a "%s" in strace_printf.
cgf
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