Re: [1.7] getaddrinfo failure

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 27 14:32, Eric Blake wrote:
> The coreutils testsuite includes a test of getaddrinfo (simplified slightly 
> before attaching here), and it is failing for me on a Windows XP machine (I 
> don't have access to Windows Vista to see if it behaves any better there).  I 
> have not yet built a debugging cygwin1.dll to try to figure out where the 
> EFAULT is resulting from, but it seems like this is probably a bug in cygwin 
> itself, as the testcase looks like it is calling everything with proper 
> pointers.

Fixed in CVS.  My code checked hints' contents without checking if hints
is a NULL pointer.  Incredible that this never happened with any other
application before.


Thanks for the testcase.
Corinna

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