cygwin crash: 'assertion "root_idx != -1" failed ...' reliably reproduced on my system

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:40:37PM -0500, Bill Meier wrote:
> From time to time I've been
>getting 'assertion "root_idx != -1" failed ...' cygwin crashes.

I've found that this is usually a race that happens when you start two
Cygwin programs at the same time.  It's fixable but it will require some
locking of Cygwin's shared memory.

cgf

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