bash 2.05a command completion spec bug

[David Gluss]

What's a command completion spec?  Given a simple testcase,
I could look into it.
DG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: bash 2.05a command completion spec bug


> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:29:28AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >Command completion specs causes bash 2.05a specifically *and* Cygwin
> >in general to behave "poorly."  By "poorly," I mean that bash becomes
> >unusable after attempting command completion and Cygwin cannot start
> >new processes:
> >
> >$ ps
> >C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** mount table size version mismatch detected -
0x11/0x4068.
> >You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system.
> >Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
> >and delete all but the most recent version.  The most recent version
*should*
> >reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
> >installed the cygwin distribution.
> >5895398 [main] bash 1648 sync_with_child: child 1560(0x1D4) died before
initialization with status code 0x1
> >5901389 [main] bash 1648 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for
longjmp
> >bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >
> >After killing all Cygwin processes, the above problem is cleared.
>
> Sounds like a *bad* problem with a wild pointer in bash.
>
> Anyone interested in tracking this down with gdb?  I know that Corinna
> is sort of swamped right now.
>
> cgf
>
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