cygwin stable and cvs snapshot - fork() bug

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

michael.vogt@post.ch wrote:
> I tried to compile mpd for Windows using Cygwin. After adding some
> workarounds (add fake_getaddrinfo.h, check
> http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1566) I was able to compile mpd.
> But when I tried to start it, mpd failed:
> 
> 
> $ ./mpd.exe --stdout --verbose
> binding to any address
> flushing warning messages
> done flushing warning messages
> current locale is "C"
> setting filesystem charset to ISO-8859-1
> setFsCharset: fs charset is: ISO-8859-1
> reading DB
> opening pid file
>   1 [main] mpd 1736 C:\cygwin\home\mpx\mpd-test\mpd.exe:
>     *** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx (0x19030000),
>     Win3 2 error 6.  Terminating.
>   68 [main] mpd 676 fork: child 1736 - died
>     waiting for dll loading, errno 11 problems fork'ing for daemon! 
> 
> cygserver is running and i did a "$ export CYGWIN=server "
> 
> I traced down the error in the file player.c, source:
> 
> static int playerInit(void)
> {
> ...
> LOG(" debug playerInit: 10\n");
>     pid = player_pid;
>     if (pid > 0) {
>         kill(pid, SIGCONT);
>         pc->wait = 0;
>         return 0;
>     }
> 
> LOG(" debug playerInit: 20\n");
>     player_pid = fork();    <<<<<<<<<<< CRASH
> LOG(" debug playerInit: 30  (pid: %i/%i)\n", pid, player_pid);    
>     blockSignals();
> LOG(" debug playerInit: 31 \n");        
>     if (player_pid==0)
> 
> 
> any hints?


Have you eliminated the <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA> factor?


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