cygdll 3.3.4 breaks cygpath.exe. mistyped commands result in fork bomb

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Fri Apr 29 09:04:14 GMT 2022


On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:22:09 +0000 (UTC)
matthew patton wrote:
> I had to revert to 3.3.3-1 to restore functionality.with 3.3.4 invoking cygpath would cause an Access Violation Exception (0x05) and kill the thread so that I couldn't even do a 'cygpath --help' 
> 
> All of a sudden I also am experiencing fork bombs if I type an invalid command. eg. type 'l' instead of 'ls' and ENTER, it spawns hundreds of 'bash.exe' processes. A half dozen 'pkill -9 bash.exe' heads off calamity. 

That does not happen to me.

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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>


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