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

[Jernej Simončič]

On Sunday, May 14, 2017, 19:46:45, Darshit Shah wrote:

> 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 use either

  wget -t0 -c -S <url>

or

  wget -t0 -c -S --trust-server-names <url>

Seems to happen more often with larger files. I don't remember any
special output when the crash happens - just the standard progress
bar, and Windows' crash notification.

> 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.

I thought about the progress bar, since it does behave a bit weird on
Windows - specifically, if the filename is scrolling, once it starts
off-screen, the last letter keeps getting repeated, while the rest of
the progress bar stops updating, however the crashes seem to happen
regardless of how the filename is displayed.

> 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.

The annoying thing is that I haven't even had a crash since I set up
DrMingw as just-in-time debugger (debugger that Windows invokes only
when a crash occurs, and which otherwise isn't running). The last time
my build crashed for me was about a month ago, downloading some ISO
file at work, while I hadn't had it crash on my home computer in well
over a year (I even tried setting up a batch file that just ran wget
in a loop and leaving it in the background, but it wouldn't crash).

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