Newly-installed bash 3.2.9-10 (cygwin 1.5.24-1) exits when I try to execute a program

[Glenn Serre]

Good morning,

Lev Bishop wrote:
> On 1/30/07, Glenn Serre  wrote:
>> I have no working patch, I was going to use this problem as an 
>> opportunity for
>> my first attempt to build and debug the cygwin DLL (while maybe even 
>> charging a
>> client for it) but it looked to me as if it may already be being 
>> addressed.
>> Looking again, I see that this might not be that case, so I'll see 
>> what I can do
>> (no promises, as I'm a newbie at cygwin development).
> 
> In cases like this, a generally useful thing you can do is to go try
> snapshots from
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> and try to figure out between which 2 versions the problem first
> appeared. If you post the reult of this to the list, then someone can
> often fix it easily, but if you wanted to have a go yourself,  you can
> look at the changelogs for that snapshot and frequently it will be
> obvious which change was to blame.


The 2006-12-11 version of cygwin1.dll has the problem.
The 2006-12-05 version does not.

I don't see an obvious smoking gun in the changelog (I haven't even looked at 
the code yet) but there do seem to be candidates.

Thanks,
--Glenn S.



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