fixup_after_fork_not?

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Sun Sep 9 17:44:00 GMT 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the fork fixup routines are running.  If 
> they weren't
> then fork wouldn't be operational.

sure :]. Its the only-shows-output-when-exec-occurs-from-tcsh that has
me intrigued.
 
> You do have to make sure that you call anything which uses 
> malloc at the
> proper point or some things (like mutos) won't be properly 
> initialized.

does system_printf use malloc? Otherwise what I'm doing is pretty basic.
(win32 CreateMutex call and a list iteration.).

> I've just reduced the size of the problematic 'zombies' 
> array.  I don't know
> if that is what is causing your size problems but it should 
> make the DLL
> noticeably smaller.

Thanks. When I get home I'll give feedback.
 
> If you can't, for some reason, debug a DLL that is entirely 
> built with -g,
> try compiling everything except fork.cc and thread.c (or 
> whatever) with '-O2'
> and those to files with '-g'.
> 
> You are using the latest version of binutils, right?

No, I'm still using the cross-compile toolkit I setup a while back. Do I
need to update that for correct functionality?

Rob



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