fork problem on latest cygwin CVS

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 16 19:14:00 GMT 2011


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:22:02PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:04:16PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>>On 11/14/2011 6:11 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>> FYI, the last thing any developer wants to hear after a major code
>>> change is a generic "It's broke" report with no details and no way to
>>> duplicate the problem.  A stack trace from a home-grown version of
>>> cygwin1.dll is not a detail.  It's meaningless unless the addresses are
>>> decoded.
>>
>>Ok,
>>rewinding to step 1
>>
>>I simplified the test case to a short one, involving just 1 make call,
>>using your snapshot
>
>Amazingly short.  Thanks very much! I can duplicate this and will fix
>it.

I've made some changes and can no longer duplicate the problem from your
test case.  If you can confirm that the latest snapshot works for you I
would appreciate it.

As it turns out, this was a change I was planning on making "at some
point in the future".  The future, apparently, is now.

cgf

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