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Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

Or don't start the Win32 app at all if the path is not valid. However we have to call SetCurrentDirectory at least once, for the first Cygwin app, into a spot it doesn't block the aforementioned rmdir. C:\ comes to mind. It's the one directory which always exists and it's not removable anyway.


That should be SYSTEMDRIVE and not a hard C:\. There is no guarantee that C: drive is present.


Earnie


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