cygwin 1.1.8 mmap()/fork() bug still not fixed

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Apr 16 10:27:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:02:41PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:48:51AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:44:12PM -0400, William Joye wrote:
> > >> >cygwin 1.1.8 mmap()/fork() bug is still not fixed. Works fine under
> > >> >cygwin 1.1.7.
> > >> 
> > >> You're going in the wrong direction.  Don't try an *older* version of cygwin.
> > >> Try a newer one, i.e. a Cygwin snapshot.
> > >> 
> > >
> > >Chris, you forgot to quote this part of William's report:
> > >
> > >> > The following C++ code breaks under cygwin 1.1.8-2 and all current
> > >> > development snapshots...
> > 
> > Oops.  You're right.  Poor reading skills on my part.
> > 
> > I can't get the test case to compile so I'm not sure that anyone will
> > be able to fix this.
> 
> I know the reason. I'm just digging around.

I think I have solved the problem (hopefully once and for all).

I have just checked in the patch. Please give it a try.

Corinna

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