Re: [Bug-wget] Wget keeps crashing on me

[Darshit Shah]

Then could you please provide us with a command line that sometimes
crashes  and preferably the debug output from Wget when it crashes. Not the
debugger, but just the debug.

I would like to reduce it to some kind of a minimal test case. Maybe the
progress bar routines are crashing, or maybe it is something to do with how
we access the filesystem, or something entirely different.
However, since you say you can't reproduce it inside a debugger, I would
hazard a guess that the issue lies somewhere in using uninitialized memory.
The debugger will initialize the memory and hence prevent some class of
bugs from occurring. An audit of the WIndows-specific code might be in
order for this since I haven't heard of such an issue on *nix machines.

On 14 May 2017 at 19:30, Jernej Simončič <jernej|address@hidden>
wrote:

> On Sunday, May 14, 2017, 19:07:49, Darshit Shah wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what the exact issue here is. But it indeed seems like the
> > issue lies somewhere in how your particular binary of Wget was built. I
> > can't reproduce the issue on my Linux system, and as Eli says he can't
> > reproduce it with his binaries either. Of course, he has linked to a much
> > older version of Wget, but if I understand right, he even has newer
> builds
> > available.
>
> The wget binary I have on my site
> (https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/) sometimes crashes when
> finishing download, but I haven't been able to reproduce the crash
> under a debugger (and I haven't had it crash since I installed DrMingw
> as JIT debugger either), so I'm not sure where the problem is.
>
> --
> < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ >
>
> It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.
>        -- Carson's Law
>
>
>


-- 
Thanking You,
Darshit Shah