fork problem [Attn: cygserver maintainer]

[J. David Boyd]

Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX> writes:

> Not all mailers have this option.  That doesn't give us the right of
> reposting people's email addresses all over the internet.  You could try
> to demand that a broken mailer be fixed, or use a different mailer...
> Someone on the cygwin-talk list may be able to supply a GNUS-specific
> solution.
>

I'll ask around.



> Heh.  What I should have said (and forgot) is that I don't think changing
> this cygserver parameter would help at all.  The problem has nothing to do
> with cygserver.
>
>> I manually added the line in, and rebooted, and it works fine now.  But
>> I'll try your suggestion later.
>
> I have a hunch that your problem was fixed by a reboot (i.e., stopping all
> Cygwin processes), rather than changes to the cygserver configuration.
> 

I don't know.  I had actually rebooted many times before, after trying
different things.  It was only after changing the setting in the .conf file
that the problem disappeared.  However, time will tell.  I don't recall having
done anything to make it show up, so maybe it will be back.

Dave


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