malloc crash

[Takashi Yano]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:46:40 -0400
Ken Brown wrote:
> I'm trying to debug the fifo problem reported here:
> 
>    https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-October/249635.html
> 
> To keep my email self-contained, here are the reproduction instructions.  Run 
> the attached script with argument 1000.  The output is supposed to look like this:
> 
> $ ./fifo_test.sh 1000
> Creating 1000 fifo readers...
> Created PID=6503  reading from /tmp/catfifo_0
> FIFO 0
> Created PID=6506  reading from /tmp/catfifo_1
> FIFO 1
> [...]
> Created PID=9506  reading from /tmp/catfifo_998
> FIFO 998
> Created PID=9509  reading from /tmp/catfifo_999
> FIFO 999
> 
> But invariably one of the exec'd cat processes will appear to hang.  (Actually 
> it goes into an infinite loop.)  If you attach gdb to that process and catch it 
> at the right time, you see something like this:

I noticed that this does not occur with 32-bit cygwin.
This occurs only with 64-bit cygwin in my environment.

Does malloc behave differently between 32 and 64 bit cygwin?

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>