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


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:30:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 12 14:15, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 12 August 2010 13:50, Earnie wrote:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Uh oh, that might cause additional aggro.
>> 
>> >> ??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.
>> 
>> Or the Cygwin base directory? Or /bin, i.e. the directory the DLL is
>> in? These couldn't be deleted anyway, and it'd be slighty less
>> catastrophic if things went wrong there ...
>
>Another advantage: We get the Cygwin root dir for free
>(shared.cc::installation_root).

We are talking about just finding a place to cd to and not a place to put
random files when the path is too long right?

cgf


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