FW: cygwin-1.dll long-time bug

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Wed Apr 19 03:44:00 GMT 2006


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According to Dave Korn on 4/18/2006 12:38 PM:
> 
>   Well, I think it's reasonable enough to say that cygwin does things that are
> pushing the envelope of what's documented to work in relation to how we handle
> forking and process startup.  After all we just had that lockup caused by the
> fact that you can't even call GetModuleName[*] from DllMain safely.  Things
> happen in an unusual order in cygwin processes and threads, and it's probably
> not something that gets a whole load of testing in microsoft's QA dept.... ;)

They have one?  What are the job qualifications to become a member of that
dept, I wonder?  I bet even a hippo could apply...

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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