Hanging at GetModuleFileName in inside_kernel function

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Thu Feb 23 18:16:00 GMT 2006


On 23 February 2006 16:20, Peter Rehley wrote:

> Yeah, I saw that change, and I tried yesterdays snapshot but it still
> hung.  I also did some more googling and found that someone submitted
> a patch a few years ago.  The patch checked to see if it was inside
> the ntdll.dll by looking at the handle.
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q2/msg00004.html
> 
> I found this google too.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/28/63880.aspx
> 
> I'm going to try that patch today and see what happens.  Christopher
> didn't apply it because it was a bandage and didn't really fix the
> bigger problem.

  That all fits right in with your diagnosis of the problem; a deadlock of
some kind I guess is the only thing that could make GetModuleFileName hang.

  Have you got a stack backtrace showing the call chain when this problem
arises?

  We may be able to come up with a substitute for GMFN that would solve the
problem.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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