Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add sniffer for Cygwin x86_64 core dumps

Simon Marchi
2020-08-21T16:22:35Z

On 2020-08-21 11:25 a.m., Jon Turney wrote:
> The "dumper" currently shipping in x86_64 Cygwin is utterly broken. (See [1] et seq.).
>
> If you use "dumper" from the latest snapshot [2], you may have more success
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=7dd1b08836e8a7bb37d330995096540afce152a0;hp=38f88601469f4a6ab7cf42e1f076775c99eb17f2
> [2] https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Ok, thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try with a snapshot.

Do I just extract cygwin-20200821.tar.xz into my current Cygwin installation to overwrite
the corresponding files? If I want to revert to the stable versions, how can I do that?

Simon