Re: cygwin-2 process handling

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

Hi Takashi,

On 5/21/2015 7:53 AM, Takashi Yano wrote:
> I was looking into this problem, and found the PeekNamedPipe()
> call is blocked in fhandler_pty_master::close() when the problem
> occurs.
>
> I had not noticed that,
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365779(v=vs.85).aspx
>
> says:
> > The PeekNamedPipe function can block thread execution the same
> > way any I/O function can when called on a synchronous handle in
> > a multi-threaded application.
>
> I have made a patch attached to resolve this problem. Please have
> a look.

Thanks!  That fixes it for me.  Michael (OP), are you able to build 
cygwin1.dll and test it?

Ken


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