Re: make returning spurious 4522468 errors

> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:08:12 -0800
> From: tom honermann <[email protected]>
> 
> Based on a brief glance at the code, I'm guessing that the value 
> returned by one of the calls to 'GetExitCodeProcess' in 
> 'w32/subproc/sub_proc.c' is somehow getting lost or corrupted.  There 
> are two calls to 'GetExitCodeProcess', both of which look very similar 
> to this:
> 
>         DWORD ierr;
>         GetExitCodeResult = GetExitCodeProcess(childhand, &ierr);
>         if (ierr == CONTROL_C_EXIT) {
>                 pproc->signal = SIGINT;
>         } else {
>                 pproc->exit_code = ierr;
>         }
>         if (GetExitCodeResult == FALSE) {
>                 pproc->last_err = GetLastError();
>                 pproc->lerrno = E_SCALL;
>         }
> 
> Two things stand out to me here:
> 
> 1: 'pproc->exit_code' is assigned the value of 'ierr' regardless of 
> whether the call to 'GetExitCodeProcess' is successful or not.  If 
> 'GetExitCodeProcess' fails, it may not assign to 'ierr' at all - which 
> could result in 'pproc->exit_code' getting assigned an uninitialized 
> value (since 'ierr' is not assigned a value)

If you plumb these holes and rebuild Make, does the problem go away?

If it does, I will be more than happy to include your suggested
changes in the development sources.

> 2: There is no check for 'ierr' being assigned 'STILL_ACTIVE'.  It may 
> be that other parts of the code ensure that 'GetExitCodeProcess' is 
> never called for an uncompleted process, I haven't looked for that.  

Make waits for finished subprocess with WaitForMultipleObjects, and
only calls GetExitCodeProcess if a process exited.  So this shouldn't
be a problem.

Thanks.