Re: snapshot 20050114 race (on list)

[Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:25:51PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 10:15 PM 1/17/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:30:11PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>>It's not a Cygwin handle.  It's an internal Windows handle to the
>>>current working directory.  Ah! Doing a chdir to C:\ just before
>>>alerting would fix this, except in the case of being terminated.
>>
>>If the process is terminated wouldn't this be a non-issue?
>
>It depends on the timing between the pipe being closed by Windows
>and the cwd handle being closed. This won't keep me awake.

I put the SetCurrentDirectory suggestion into the latest cygwin but it
just occurred to me that this needs to be called unconditionally since
an execed child could exit prior to the stub exiting so, something like:

  int bar;
  mkdir ("/foo", 0777);
  chdir ("/foo");
  if (!fork ())
    exec ("/bin/pwd");
  wait (&bar);
  chdir ("/");
  rmdir ("/foo");

wouldn't be guaranteed to work since there could be a stub that was
still cd'ed to "/foo" even after "/bin/pwd" has finished executing.

cgf