Benson Margulies wrote:
Would anyone be willing to elaborate on how the existing code is going
about accomplishing the task at hand? If not, at least knowing that this
is the goal of the exercise should make it easier to get a clue.
I believe that there is some documentation in a file in the CVS f
I've belatedly located Corinna Vinschen's email message about the
requirement for the stack address in fork.
Would anyone be willing to elaborate on how the existing code is going
about accomplishing the task at hand? If not, at least knowing that this
is the goal of the exercise should make it e
On Dec 9 12:55, Benson Margulies wrote:
> I assume that there's a very strong reason why this code can't just
> allocate a stack any-old-place (calling VirtualAlloc with first arg 0)
> and use it. What I don't understand is the nature of the constraints. If
> the parent needs to know, why not have
This looks like a logic error in fork.cc/dcrt0.cc to me, but I'm
probably not understanding something.
alloc_stack_hard_way assumes that the memory at ci->stacktop is
available. ci->stacktop is set to be the region of memory that contains
a stack variable in the parent process at the time that sta
The error message rather unambiguously indicates that VirtualAlloc is
returning 0 with GetLastError() == 0. The call in question calls
VirtualAlloc with parameters derived from a call to VirtualQuery against
some stack storage. It seems that this version of Windows is not
altogether pleased to see
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Subject: Re: Memory Management on AMD64 in 32-bit mode
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:30:17PM -0500, Benson Margulies wrote:
>I happen to have access to a an AMD64 system running Windows. All the
>cygwin sh
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:30:17PM -0500, Benson Margulies wrote:
>I happen to have access to a an AMD64 system running Windows. All the
>cygwin shells fail to fork with the following. I'd be willing to try
>coding and running a patch if the experts would care to offer an idea of
>what to try.
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