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Re: Cygwin on Win98: initdb failed


On Sep 21 16:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Sep 21 15:02, Christian Rank wrote:
>>> The corresponding debugging info of cygserver reads:
>>> 
>>> cygserver: /netrel/src/cygwin-1.5.11-1/winsup/cygserver/sysv_shm.cc,
>>> line 385: shmaddr: 82FFD000, shmflg: 0
>>> cygserver: /netrel/src/cygwin-1.5.11-1/winsup/cygserver/sysv_shm.cc,
>>> line 393: Odd shmaddr: EINVAL
> 
> Urgh!  Ok, well... looking into the implementation of shmat, there's
> only one explanation for this behaviour.  Apparently MapViewOfFileEx
> returned memory which isn't aligned to the memory granulation.
> 
> [time passes, testing on a 9x system]
> 
> That's it.  Incredible.  I've checked in a patch to cygserver which
> takes this into account.  Please give cygserver from the next Cygwin
> snapshot (http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html) a try.

OK, I will test it with the next snapshot (not online yet).
Thank you very much for fixing this so quickly.

Best regards,
	Christian

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