#1231 ooRexx 4.1.3 randomly crashes console window

[Gene]

This bug applies to ooRexx 4.1.3 x64 on Windows 7 x64, with the TCC (Take Command) command processor.

The console window closes for no apparent reason and at random times. No GPF is created and no error message appears. The window just closes as if I had clicked on the X button. It always happens when I am using the command line to call an internal command, a batch file or a Rexx script, but sometimes I'm only backspacing to correct a typo. It's apparent to me that conhost is crashing, although I don't get an error message.

It took me several weeks to figure out what was causing the problem, but I finally remembered that I had upgraded ooRexx to 4.1.3 at the end of October. I uninstalled 4.1.3 last week and then re-installed 4.1.2. The problem stopped.

[Mark Miesfeld]

Hi Gene,

Could you please try this with the ooRexx 4.2.0 release candidate. You can download it from:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx/4.2.0%20%28release%20candidate%202%29/

Be sure to report back your results. Thanks.

[Gene]

I downloaded 4.2.0. I will install it on Sunday. after a scheduled
overnight backup tonight.

Thanks for your response.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesfeld@users.sf.netwrote:

Hi Gene,

Could you please try this with the ooRexx 4.2.0 release candidate. You can
download it from:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx/4.2.0%20%28release%20candidate%202%29/

Be sure to report back your results. Thanks.

• [bugs:#1231] http://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1231/ ooRexx 4.1.3
  randomly crashes console window*

Status: open
Created: Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:47 PM UTC by Gene
Last Updated: Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:47 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

This bug applies to ooRexx 4.1.3 x64 on Windows 7 x64, with the TCC (Take
Command) command processor.

The console window closes for no apparent reason and at random times. No
GPF is created and no error message appears. The window just closes as if I
had clicked on the X button. It always happens when I am using the command
line to call an internal command, a batch file or a Rexx script, but
sometimes I'm only backspacing to correct a typo. It's apparent to me that
conhost is crashing, although I don't get an error message.

It took me several weeks to figure out what was causing the problem, but I
finally remembered that I had upgraded ooRexx to 4.1.3 at the end of
October. I uninstalled 4.1.3 last week and then re-installed 4.1.2. The
problem stopped.

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[Gene]

I been using 4.2.0 heavily for 2-1/2 days. It's been completely stable.
I've had no console failures at all.

This is a hard-working machine and I feel confident that 4.2.0 is fixed.
Thanks for the effort you put into this. I was introduced to Rexx by OS/2
2.0 and I'd never want to be without it.

Gene

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Gene gene1999@users.sf.net wrote:

I downloaded 4.2.0. I will install it on Sunday. after a scheduled
overnight backup tonight.

Thanks for your response.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesfeld@users.sf.net
wrote:

Hi Gene,

Could you please try this with the ooRexx 4.2.0 release candidate. You can
download it from:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx/4.2.0%20%28release%20candidate%202%29/
Be sure to report back your results. Thanks.

• [bugs:#1231] http://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1231/
  http://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1231/ ooRexx 4.1.3
  randomly crashes console window*

Status: open
Created: Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:47 PM UTC by Gene
Last Updated: Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:47 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

This bug applies to ooRexx 4.1.3 x64 on Windows 7 x64, with the TCC (Take
Command) command processor.

The console window closes for no apparent reason and at random times. No
GPF is created and no error message appears. The window just closes as if I
had clicked on the X button. It always happens when I am using the command
line to call an internal command, a batch file or a Rexx script, but
sometimes I'm only backspacing to correct a typo. It's apparent to me that
conhost is crashing, although I don't get an error message.

It took me several weeks to figure out what was causing the problem, but I
finally remembered that I had upgraded ooRexx to 4.1.3 at the end of
October. I uninstalled 4.1.3 last week and then re-installed 4.1.2. The
problem stopped.

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• [bugs:#1231] http://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1231/ ooRexx 4.1.3
  randomly crashes console window*

Status: open
Created: Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:47 PM UTC by Gene
Last Updated: Sat Feb 01, 2014 03:10 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

This bug applies to ooRexx 4.1.3 x64 on Windows 7 x64, with the TCC (Take
Command) command processor.

The console window closes for no apparent reason and at random times. No
GPF is created and no error message appears. The window just closes as if I
had clicked on the X button. It always happens when I am using the command
line to call an internal command, a batch file or a Rexx script, but
sometimes I'm only backspacing to correct a typo. It's apparent to me that
conhost is crashing, although I don't get an error message.

It took me several weeks to figure out what was causing the problem, but I
finally remembered that I had upgraded ooRexx to 4.1.3 at the end of
October. I uninstalled 4.1.3 last week and then re-installed 4.1.2. The
problem stopped.

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[Mark Miesfeld]

This appears to be fixed in ooRexx 4.2.0

I think it may be related to the fix for:

[bugs:#1239]

The reason being that there was very little change between 4.1.2 and 4.1.3. The main change was a rewrite of SysFileTree in which I introduced a buffer over-run. In both bugs, a crash occurred when running an alternate shell on top of the Windows command shell. I suspect that the problem reported in this bug was fixed by fixing the buffer over-run.