Re: fork problem on latest cygwin CVS

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:09:07PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>On 11/14/2011 4:31 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 03:40:32PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>>> Hi Cgf,
>>>
>>>
>>> after updating cygwin CVS build from
>>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2011-q4/msg00063.html
>>> to
>>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2011-q4/msg00064.html .. 66html
>>>
>>> on CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64
>>>
>>> the shell have fork issues during  make/build session.
>>
>> Come on, you know the drill by now.  How about a simple test case?
>
>I know the drill, but I just updated from XP-32 to W7-64,
>one disk crashed, so I am reinstalling everything from scratch and
>taking a test case when building octave is never easy.
>
>So I need time to give you a simple test case, and eventually
>someone else will notice the same problem in advance.
>
>FYI 2011-11-08 snapshot does not suffer such problem.

FYI, the last thing any developer wants to hear after a major code
change is a generic "It's broke" report with no details and no way to
duplicate the problem.  A stack trace from a home-grown version of
cygwin1.dll is not a detail.  It's meaningless unless the addresses are
decoded.

cgf

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