Re: Windows 8 Release Preview. fork problems with rsync

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

Please, don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU 
Thank you.

On Jun  6 17:59, Nick Lowe wrote:
> > Thanks. ÂI can confirm the effect. ÂFor no apparent reason, the OS
> > reserves a 1 Megs shared memory region, top-down allocated, of which it
> > uses about 20K. ÂIt's not the PEB or one of the TEBs, though. ÂNor is
> > it a thread stack. ÂI checked, and it turns out that it's allocated
> > in every process, on 32 and 64 bit systems. ÂThat's kind of worrying
> > since that's bound to collide with mmaped regions and pthread stacks a
> > lot. ÂI don't know what to do at this point.
> 
> Urgh! Hmm.. Do you see the same effect when running the process in
> question under the Windows 8 operating system context?
> 
> If you manifest and include:
> 
> <compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
>       <application>
>          <!--The ID below indicates application support for Windows Vista -->
> <supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"/>
> <!--The ID below indicates application support for Windows 7 -->
> <supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>
> <!--The ID below indicates application support for Windows 8 -->
> <supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}"/>
>       </application>
>   </compatibility>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848036(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> Does the odd behaviour still persist?

Yes.

> Could it be possibly be something to do with the fault tolerant heap
> (FTH) and changes they've made to it? I would try ensuring that is
> switched off too...

That's not the problem either.  This problem also occurs on the 2012
server which doesn't run FTH.

But thanks for any idea.


Corinna

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