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. >>> >>I suspect that this must have something to do with binutils. I changed the >> >>alignments at David Billinghurst's suggestion to accommodate java. If >>this is causing problems, however, I'll change them back. >> >That's what I was referring to. > Is it possible for you to work around this? I believe the alignment change is necessary for a working libgcj/gcj suite. It would be nice to have both working properly...
Cheers, Nicholas