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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Peter Rehley wrote: > Hello, > > I tried the latest release of cygwin1.dll (1.5.24-1) and it still is > hanging in the same way. I've tried to debug further with gdb, but > so far I haven't got any useful information out of gdb. > > I'll keep trying to get some debug information, but if any one else > can reproduce the problem I would be most appreciative. I can reproduce a problem. Your descriptions of it are a bit hard to follow, so I'm not sure if it is your problem or not. Unfortunately, I don't have time to debug it right now. I do have a few comments, though. Why are you creating a thread just to fork/exec another process? Pedantically, I believe you are supposed to call _exit, not exit, if fork fails as stated here in the Solaris man page for fork: An applications should call _exit() rather than exit(3C) if it cannot execve(), since exit() will flush and close stan- dard I/O channels and thereby corrupt the parent process's standard I/O data structures. Using exit(3C) will flush buf- fered data twice. See exit(2). I don't know, however, if this is really true in Cygwin, but it might explain some misdiagnosed hangs on your part. Also, the execve call appears to be suspect. Again, the Solaris man page for execve states: The value in argv[0] should point to a filename that is associated with the process being started by one of the exec functions. [snip] As indicated, argc is at least one and the first member of the array points to a string containing the name of the file. Attached is a modified test case that fixes a few of these issues, but still hangs (or stutters; it does appear to proceed after long periods of time). -- Brian Ford Lead Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew...
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