[Bug 24018] Cygwin 1.7.6 installer crashes at start of postinstall

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018

Andrey Turkin <andrey.turkin at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Andrey Turkin <andrey.turkin at gmail.com> 2013-05-29 01:27:34 CDT ---
--- snip ---
      char *st = (char *) stacktop - 4096;
      while (_tlstop >= st)
        stackp = getstack (stackp);
--- snip ---

This is a bug in Cygwin - this code is supposed to allocate stack to the same
limits as in parent thread, but it touches 2 extra pages. This is usually not a
problem in Windows where initial stack allocation is significantly less than
stack limit; Wine pre-allocates whole stack instead and there is no extra space
to go. This bug in Cygwin can be reproduced on Windows too with this program:

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int main(void) {
  while(!fork());
  return 0;
}
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It is supposed to be able to fork infinitely; on Cygwin it will fail rather
quickly.

Wine probably should emulate Windows behavior and allocate as much stack space
as requested by PE header; unfortunately, Windows approach (a single guard
page) is not an option because Wine code and *NIX libraries don't probe stack
pages.

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