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Re: [Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com: Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontselcrashing when running under cygserver support]


Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:55:14PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

On Mar 30 15:34, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
But you can also change cygrunsrv to create a thread via pthread_create and
fork from this thread. This should work either.

That's not the way to go, IMO. It requires *all* Cygwin applications written to be started under SCM to be rewritten.
Right.  I've been working hard to keep cygwin functional with cygrunsrv
and SCM.  In fact, I think I've removed the requirement that inetd has
to fork a process after it calls SCM so that signals are delivered properly.

Since this is a breaking of backwards compatibility we won't even consider
changing applications.

I've read the rest of the thread and know that there is a patch ready but I
wanted to get these thoughts into the archive.

You can believe me that i did not really considered this as on option.


Thomas



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