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Re: reading /proc/registry/ causes Segmentation fault.
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:38:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: reading /proc/registry/ causes Segmentation fault.
- References: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602DBF139CF@server03>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 5 10:57, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> The script below worked without problems last month. But now I get Segmentation fault (core dumped).
>
>
> If I use the lines which begins with
>
> #this works fine
>
> instead of the one with GetWordExe it works fine.
>
> I tested it with the latest update
>
> Sorry that it is not shorter but it is the shortes form to get it work.
Did you try with the Cygwin DLL from a recent developer snapshot from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ ?
There was a buffer overflow in wide character string allocation which
broke /proc/registry access. It has been fixed one day after releasing
Cygwin 1.7.5.
Corinna
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