reading /proc/registry/ causes Segmentation fault.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May  5 10:57, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> The script below worked without problems last month.  But now I get Segmentation fault (core dumped).
> 
> 
> If I use the lines which begins with
> 
> #this works fine
> 
>  instead of the one with GetWordExe it works fine.
> 
> I tested it with the latest update
> 
> Sorry that it is not shorter but it is the shortes form to get it work.

Did you try with the Cygwin DLL from a recent developer snapshot from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ ?

There was a buffer overflow in wide character string allocation which
broke /proc/registry access.  It has been fixed one day after releasing
Cygwin 1.7.5.


Corinna

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