SOLVED: zsh / cygwin 1.x / status access violation

[Johannes Mähner]

Geoff Wing from the zsh mailing list gave me 
the tip to undefine HAVE_MMAP in config.h of zsh.
The question if there is a bug in mmap of cygwin or not 
serves as food for our cygwin-gurus ;-)


To : Johannes Mähner <johanm at camline dot com>
Subject : Re: zsh 3.1.6/7 and cygwin 1.x
>From : Geoff Wing <gcw at zsh dot org>
Date : Wed, 17 May 2000 19:45:24 +1000
Organization : PrimeNet Computer Consultancy
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Johannes Mähner wrote about Re: zsh 3.1.6/7 and cygwin 1.x:
:Geoff Wing wrote:
:> Oh, one thing I've just remembered.  I had to stop it from trying to
:> use mmap - I didn't know if it was specific to me or if it was more general.
:> Editing config.h and undefining HAVE_MMAP may fix your problem.
:
:!!!THAT'S IT!!!
:!!!!THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!
:If you don't mind, I will forward your email to the cygwin mailing list

That's fine.  I didn't investigate whether the mmap problem was specific
to zsh or if mmap is not fully supported under cygwin.

:BTW, how did you figure out that mmap could be the problem?
:(e.g. status access violation => denied memory access => 
:check out everything which is correlated to memory ;-)

Close to that :-)  Though I suspect I just ran it from gdb to find out
roughly whether the problem was - and I have the advantage of knowing
the internals of quite a bit of zsh fairly well.

Regards,
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