Re: [PATCH v2] Cygwin: Fix the address of myself

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 25 19:59, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/25/2019 9:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jul 24 19:11, Ken Brown wrote:
> >> On 7/24/2019 12:54 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
> >>>
> >>> v2: rephrase commit message
> >>>
> >>> Introducing an independent Cygwin PID introduced a regression:
> >>> [...]
> >>> This patch makes sure to set the handle to INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE again
> >>> when creating a new process, so init knows that myself has to be created
> >>> in the right spot.  While at it, fix a potential uninitialized handle
> >>> value in child_info_spawn::handle_spawn.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: b5e1003722cb ("Cygwin: processes: use dedicated Cygwin PID rather than Windows PID")
> >>> Fixes: 88605243a19b ("Cygwin: fix child getting another pid after spawnve")
> >>> Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
> >>> [...]
> >>
> >> I'll be glad to take a close look at this as you asked.  But I'm not familiar
> >> with this part of the code, so it will take me a little time.
> >>
> >> Ken
> > 
> > Thanks!  I accidentally pushed the patch a few minutes ago when I
> > was actually just planning to push the ndbm.h patch.  Anyway, I
> > took the opportunity to create new snapshots with all patches from
> > yesterday and today, so the getpgrp problems in GDB 8.1.1 and 8.2.1
> > should both be fixed there as well.
> > 
> > I'd still be glad if the two of you could check if my patch makes
> > sense as is.
> 
> It looks fine to me, though I can't claim to have grasped all its implications. 
> In any case, I've installed it and have done a few things that often catch bugs 
> (e.g., building emacs and running its test suite), and there are no problems so far.
> 
> My next step will be to install the experimental pipe code that I posted in 
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2019-q2/msg00144.html to see if that shakes 
> anything loose.
> 
> Ken

Great, thank you!


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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