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Re: outstanding issues blocking new release?


On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:11:00AM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Tuesday, 07 August, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
>
>CF> I can only think of three issues with cygwin that may need addressing.
>
>CF> 1) The close_all_files problem that Egor found with exec'ed processes.
>
>CF> 2) The problem with select() not detecting eof on pipes (Corinna really
>CF>    wants me to fix this).
>
>CF> 3) The ntsec inheritance stuff.
>
>CF> Is there anything more?  Of the three, I think the most important one is
>CF> probably 1).  The other two are potentially enough too major to consider
>CF> if I want to make a new release.
>
>afaics, your last changes to cygheap include close_all_files () fix,
>they just didn't mention it in ChangeLog.

Gah.  That was unintentional.  Sorry.

>I'm running a system with them for a couple of days now, and doesn't
>experience any "lockups" (which were probably because of this bug
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2001-q3/msg00049.html) or
>any problems.

Well, that's good news, anyway.

cgf


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