On 8/13/07, Joe Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 8/13/07, Pierre Östlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yeah, we might just cut the length of the string or something if its to
> long
> > until we can bump required mono version.
>
> If we can figure out exactly why it's happening, we can probably just
> cut-and-paste the body of the function but with a much larger buffer
> size.


Yeah, that would work too.

> I need to compile and install latest SVN to make sure it's not already
> > fixed as well (as the devs will probably be more pleased that way).
>
> This is probably not necessary; the file in question hasn't been
> changed since March 2006.  And the way it resizes the StringBuilder's
> capacity is a pretty common one, and one I think we actually use
> ourselves in Beagle for file names.


True. But I'll do it anyway. I have already begun with a build in my virtual
machine.

> I took a peak as well and I can't find what's wrong either. Seems to be
> > something that's wrong with the memory allocation within mono. But I'm
> not
> > sure. We'll see what they have to say.
>
> Indeed.  Does Lukas's small test case also trigger it for you?


It's mostly Lukas's code that I have been using when testing on various
machines. Just accessing the "MachineName"-property triggers the crash. So
we are definitely seeing a mono bug here (especially since a lot of people
seem to be able to reproduce the behaviour).

Thanks!

Pierre Östlund
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