[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.7

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Feb 8 14:49:00 GMT 2019


On Feb  8 15:43, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/8/19 2:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb  8 14:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Feb  8 13:52, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> >>> On 2/8/19 1:23 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>> On Feb  8 13:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>>> On Feb  8 12:51, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> For now it seems like there's an inconsistency with PIDs:
> >>>>>> A first process PID 100, receives PID 101 from spawn(),
> >>>>>> but in the new process getpid() returns 102:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> $ ./dospawn /bin/bash -c 'echo $$'
> >>>>>> 12625
> >>>>>> waitpid: pid 12624 status 0x0
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Oh, hmm.  If you call spawnve, rather than execve, a new child pid
> >>>>> is generated in spawnve, rather than just keeping the callers pid.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> However, apparently the child invents its own pid in pinfo::thisproc
> >>>>> after being spawned.  But actually this should only occur for forked
> >>>>> processes aore processes started from non-Cygwin parents.
> >>>>
> >>>> Does that help, by any chance:
> >>>> [nope]
> >>>
> >>> How should the child be informed at all about the new cygpid value generated in
> >>> parent's child_info_spawn::worker() ?
> >>
> >> I just realized this myself.  The old method creating Cygwin pids just
> >> fetched the pid from GetCurrentProcessId(), which was right for spawned
> >> (but not execed) processes.  For the new pid we might have to give this
> >> to the child via child_info_spawn.
> > 
> > This works for me, can you test this, too, please?
> 
> Looks good to me as well, I'm going to start my hours running use case now.

Sounds good, thanks.  I'll push this change now.  We can always
rework it if it's insufficient.

> > I pushed your forkable branch to master, btw.  Would you mind to do the
> > honors in the ;rease notes at cygwin/release/3.0 and doc/new-features.xml?
> 
> Ok, just preparing the tests first. Thanks a lot!

No worries, as long as I know you're here to answer questions ;)


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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