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Message-ID: <20130506232018.GA27159@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 03:20:18 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: --fork under Cygwin
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:15:02PM -0400, Rich Rumble wrote:
> I've had that happen, john forks into it's processes, loads the hashes, and
> 6 out of 8 (for example) never use any CPU.
That's nasty, and probably not something we can fix via our code
(without patching Cygwin).
> The very first or second
> contest version I had the least trouble with, but it was also used the
> least.
I'm not aware of changes that would introduce more trouble. Maybe a
Cygwin version upgrade?
> The main issue initially as I saw it was the forks were not saving
> cracks to the pot
This is one we've recently dealt with. It was not Windows specific.
Well, maybe the Windows-specific bit of it was that the cracks were also
not saving when the processes terminated? Anyhow, we need to re-test.
Alexander
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