Re: fork problem on latest cygwin CVS

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

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:01:16PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>On 11/16/2011 8:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:22:02PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:04:16PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>>>> On 11/14/2011 6:11 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Ok,
>>>> rewinding to step 1
>>>>
>>>> I simplified the test case to a short one, involving just 1 make call,
>>>> using your snapshot
>>>
>>> Amazingly short.  Thanks very much! I can duplicate this and will fix
>>> it.
>>
>> I've made some changes and can no longer duplicate the problem from your
>> test case.  If you can confirm that the latest snapshot works for you I
>> would appreciate it.
>>
>> As it turns out, this was a change I was planning on making "at some
>> point in the future".  The future, apparently, is now.
>>
>> cgf
>>
>
>CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111116 04:41:29 i686 Cygwin
>
>passed my crash test:
>a full build of octave binary from scratch plus the make check.

Phew.

Thanks for confirming.

cgf

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