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

[John Kimble]

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 at freehaven.net> 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,
> --
> Nick Mathewson
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