Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:12:45AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote:
>David Rothenberger wrote:
>> 
>> David Rothenberger writes:
>>  > "Biederman, Steve" wrote:
>>  > >
>>  > > I want to allow the users I support to be able to run Cygwin tar on their Windows machines.
>>  > > These machines have not had any Cygwin installed; they're just bare Windows machines.
>>  > >
>>  > > I provided them tar.exe and cygwin1.dll and assumed that with these, they could run
>>  > > Cygwin tar sucessfully.  It appears that that isn't the case: machines without Cygwin
>>  > > installed see different behavior than machines which have it installed.  (Running tar
>>  > > on machines without Cygwin installed creates incorrect tar archives.)
>>  >
>> [snip]
>>  > Through experimentation, I discovered that the problem went away if I
>>  > created an /etc mount.
>> 
>> I did a little debugging on this.  It turns out that when tar
>> "hangs", the process is in an infinite loop in malloc_consolidate().
>
>Some googling uncovered that loops in malloc_consolidate() are usually a
>sign of heap corruption.  More googling suggested that compiling the
>cygwin dll with --enable-malloc-debugging would be helpful for finding
>heap corruption.  But, I'm have quite a bit of trouble getting the dll
>to compile with that configure switch.

That's because it is currently broken.  There was a hack posted to get it
working.  I think it was to the cygwin mailing list.

cgf

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