On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:52:59PM +0100, Chris January wrote: >> Hello Chris, >> >> Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 12:21:42 AM, you wrote: >> >> CJ> Will this package actually appear on the mirrors in future or are >there >> CJ> issues I am not aware of preventing this from happening? >> >> Have you tried running the procps tools on current stock dll >> (1.3.12-1) ? For me most of them seem to just hang - top, procps, >> uptime, vmstat, w... havent tried the others. >> >> Maybe this problem corelates with the fact that some of the /proc >> files no longer contain information - see below: >> Perhaps it has to do something with your last patch. I don't have time >> to look at this right now though. I can send strace if you want. >> >> The procps tools I'm using were downloaded from your site following >> their anouncement on cygwin-apps. >This is caused by the default alignment changing from 4 bytes to 8 bytes, as >far as i can tell. Basically the size of structure passed to the NT system >calls is not the size of structure the call expects, so it fails and the >program (top, uptime, etc.) gets stuck in a loop trying to read data. >I did add macros to ntdll.h to make sure the structures were aligned >correctly, but then Chris changed the alignment back so I removed them. I >shall let Chris comment on this.
Huh? What alignments have I changed? Pointers please. cgf