ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off

[Dave Korn]

On 03 March 2006 16:39, Christian Franke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> with the current cygwin1.dll 20050203, ls.exe hangs on access of an
> inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off.
> 
> Steps to reproduce on XP Prof:
> 
> $ CYGWIN=ntsec ls "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information"
> ls: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: Permission denied
> # OK
> 
> $ CYGWIN=nontsec ls "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information"
> ls: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: Permission denied
> # *** ls hangs with 100% CPU ***
> 
> Bug is present since cygwin1.dll 20050128, 20050127 was OK.
> 
> Christian


  It appears to be running to completion and then hitting an infinite loop at

(gdb) info symbol 0x61002148
_cfree@4 + 40 in section .text

which is called from exit().  Can't do better than that yet, I can't seem to
get these separate .dll/.dbg files to play together right now...


    cheers,
      DaveK
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