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Re: Windows-specific bug? cached-routers ignored on start-up

To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Nick Mathewson" <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Windows-specific bug? cached-routers ignored on start-up
From: "John Kimble" <det.j.kimble@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 23:46:20 +0800
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Hi,

I've installed 0.1.2.5-alpha and confirmed that the fix works perfectly. Thanks.

- John

On 12/7/06, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:20:49AM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:02:55PM +0800, John Kimble wrote:
> > It seems the current Tor+Privoxy+Vidalia bundle (0.1.2.4-alpha)
> > running on Windows XP does not load server descriptors from
> > cached-routers on start-up.
>
> Hm.  This might have something to do with the fact that we now use
> mmap (or CreateFileMapping on Windows) to load cached-routers on
> startup, in order to let the OS use less RAM.  It looks like the
> Windows implementation could be broken, though.  If anybody with
> Windows coding fu wants to take a look at tor_mmap_file in compat.c,
> that would probably be where the error is.

Yup. There was indeed a bug there.  I've got a likely fix checked in
to the repository, which should appear in 0.1.2.5-x.  Please let me
know if it works, either by email or on the bug tracker entry at
  http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=365

yrs,
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Nick Mathewson

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