On 2013-06-24 12:34-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [....]I cannot currently help you out with Cygwin testing of > PLplot because of a Cygwin-related bug in Wine that is a complete > showstopper. [....]
Hi Arjen: I just reviewed the situation for that showstopper bug (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018). There is one assertion it is a Cygwin issue in how the stack is handled by fork calls, but the test (which claims there are problems with an infinite number of fork calls for the Cygwin platform) is not too convincing since such an infinite loop containing fork calls could run out of other resources than the stack. Worse yet, nobody followed up with a better test of what is happening to the stack with Cygwin fork calls, and there is only one casual "by the way" mention of wine bug 24018 on the principal Cygwin list where Cygwin bugs should be reported. From these results it appears this bug has been caught in limbo between Cygwin and Wine developers for a couple of years now. To restart interest in fixing this bug, do you know any Cygwin developers who might be willing to take a look at http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018 to see whether they can come up with a better test of what happens to the Cygwin stack for large numbers of fork calls and with that test either prove or disprove that 24018 is a Cygwin issue? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
