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Re: wierd top bug = problem with commune_send
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:32:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: wierd top bug = problem with commune_send
- References: <ICEBIHGCEJIPLNMBNCMKEEIBCHAA.chris@atomice.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:29:32PM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>The problem reported on the Cygwin mailing list as "wierd top bug" appears
>to be due to a problem in commune_send. commune_send gets stuck in a busy
>loop waiting for the reply to the _SIGCOMMUNE signal when the signal is sent
>to a Windows process as opposed to a Cygwin process. The Windows process
>doesn't understand signals so doesn't reply to it - and commune_send gets
>stuck in the busy loop at line 365. I don't have time to actually craft a
>fix at the moment I'm afraid.
commune_send is not *supposed* to be communicating with a non-cygwin
process. How is it possible for there to be a _pinfo structure for a
non-cygwin process?
cgf