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Re: fork fails after nmap with hint address in an unmapped memory region


Worked for me.
Thank you.

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 14:31:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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On Dec  9 15:58, St=C3=A9phane Mbape via cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> While embeding luajit in a c=C2=A0 program, I found myself unable to fork
> processes.
> Investigations prove that it was related to nmap.
> To be accurate, calling nmap with hint address in a unmapped memory region
> will cause all forks to fail with
> "fixup_mmaps_after_fork: ReadProcessMemory failed for MAP_PRIVATE address
> 0x6FFFFFE0000, Win32 error 299"
>=20
> There is a sample code below.
>=20
> Thank you for reading.

Thank you for the testcase.  I pushed a patch and uploaded new developer
snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots.  Please test.


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