Kernel stack trace for Winows 10 blue screen when running Cygwin?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  7 11:29, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> Forwarding to cygwin@cygwin.com
> 
> Honestly I find it deeply concerning that a plain, unprivileged user
> can Bluescreen a machine, and more so that it happens during normal
> Cygwin usage.

Same here.  Cygwin is userspace only!

If any call in Cygwin can generate a bluescreen, it's a bug in the
kernel or in the driver.  Naturally, we have neither control over the
kernel, nor over the NTFS driver.  You might want to open a support case
with Microsoft.


Corinna


> 
> Ced
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 23:56
> Subject: Kernel stack trace for Winows 10 blue screen when running Cygwin?
> To: <cygwin-developers@cygwin.com>
> 
> 
> Good evening!
> 
> How can we get a Windows kernel stack trace for a blue screen - aka
> Windows kernel crash?
> 
> We're experiencing regular blue screens when we run Cygwin git
> operations for a large repository (~6GB of text files, sort of DNA
> data).
> Usually it goes booom in the ntfs module with a git clone, or git
> commit, but a more detailed stack trace would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Ced
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