small problem with exec

[Chris Faylor]

Egor Duda wrote:
>exec() inherits open file handles, and some of them can possibly be
>sockets.  cygwin has global variable to track the number of open
>sockets    (number_of_sockets)   which   increments   when  socket  is
>created and decrements when socket gets freed.  after fork this
>variable is initialized properly, but after exec it is 0.  when exec'ed
>process closes socket, cygwin prints "socket count < 0" warning.
>
>should number_of_sockets be eliminated or passed in child_info_spawn?

It should be eliminated.  The dynamic loading of winsock functions eliminated
the need for this some time ago.  I actually thought I got rid of this already.

It's gone now at least.

Thanks for catching this.  I am surprised that I haven't noticed the error message
that you noted.

cgf