vfork always fail problem

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed May 26 11:57:00 GMT 2010


On May 20 11:43, Huang Bambo wrote:
> 2010/5/20 Huang Bambo <bambo.huang@gmail.com>:
> >> Huang,
> >>
> >> you - as the person who first saw and documented the problem in public
> >> (thank you!) - are in the best position to test it, if you can recreate the
> >> original situation (with the GBK(?) directory names).
> >>
> >> It would be beneficial to all of us, and you would be doing everybody a
> >> favour (if you wish, which is your choice), if you could test if the problem
> >> reproduces with Cygwin 1.7.5, and goes away with the snapshot.
> >
> > fork() now work well but find new problem after use the 0518 patch.
> > Usually I use mintty to as the default term tool. After use this patch, I can't
> > directly use mintty to open the first shell( like nothing happened), I
> > must use Cygwin.bat to create
> > a fist shell, then use short cut of mintty in the start menu to open others.
> >
> > I'll find out why if I have time.
> 
> terminate while calling forkpty().

I'm using mintty with the latest from CVS and I can't reproduce this.
Mintty starts just fine from a shortcut with target
"C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -".


Corinna

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