Forking a program in a thread

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  9 11:32, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:47:13AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Mar  9 02:14, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > > I would like to point out a regression, seemingly introduced in 1.7.10.
> > > If a program is exec'ed after forking in a thread and the program is
> > > a native Windows program, it (seemingly) fails to start.
> > 
> > What Windows version?
> 
> I've tried it on both Vista 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. Same behavior.

I could reproduce it and I have a fix which works for me on W7/64.
I'm just creating a new developer snapshot for testing, so, please
test the today's developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
as soon as it shows up.

Thanks for the report and the testcase.


Corinna

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