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Re: Postmaster core dumps
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:10:30 +0200
- Subject: Re: Postmaster core dumps
- References: <0MKu60-1E0L272OZO-0000t4@mxeu10.kundenserver.de> <20050803153956.GH14783@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 3 17:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 3 17:17, Novaelec wrote:
> > Hello Corinna,
> >
> > I think the problem is in cygserver because the bug is related to semaphores
> > when I use gdb. [...]
>
> Sorry to say that, but to me it looks like a bug in postmaster. Looking
> into the stacktrace printed when the SEGV occurs, I'm getting this:
>
> $ addr2line -e /bin/cygwin1.dll 610D6127 610028FE 610173A9 61017A6E 61017D1F 6109E76C 610942FF
> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/newlib/libc/machine/i386/memset.S:45
> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/cygheap.cc:331
> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:375
> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:486
> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc:532
> /home/corinna/src/cygwin/vanilla/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc:127
>
> This is the stacktrace of a dup() call on the tty slave descriptor. It
> looks like a heap corruption to me. It has certainly nothing to do with
> semaphores.
FYI, I tracked the problem down to a point that I can savely say,
it's neither a bug in postgresql, nor in cygserver. It has nothing
to do with semaphores. As noted above, it's a heap problem, but
it's entirely inside Cygwin. Unfortunately I have no fix so far.
For the curious, it's reproducible with
int fd;
for (;;)
fd = dup (0);
Corinna
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