Failure with fork()
gmt@malth.us
gmt@malth.us
Fri Jun 28 10:16:00 GMT 2013
on Fri, 28 Jun 2013, at 01:41, Corinna Vinschen thusly quipped:
> I think it's a misconception that this very bug is the culprit of
> Cygwin not running under wine. Here's why:
>
> What this bug did was very simple. On each fork, the child process
> committed 4K more stack than its parent. The default stacksize for the
> main thread of a process is 2 Megs. It's a long way for a process to
> take that much space on the stack. So this problem should be visible
> only in rare circumstances wher the main thread of a parent process
> is already filled and then the child crashes because the 2 Megs are
> overrun. As I mentioned in my first post to this thread, the testcase
> took almost 500 forks until the problem occured, 485 to be exact.
> 485*4K = 1.9 Megs.
>
> If anything keeps Cygwin from running under Wine, it's probably some
> different problem, which still need investigating.
At a glance, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018#c9 describes a seemingly plausible etiology involving the dcrt0.cc code and differing stack-allocation semantics between wine and windows.
-gmt
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