[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-56

[Reini Urban]

2009/8/4 Christopher Faylor:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:06:00PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>2009/8/4 Christopher Faylor:
>>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:26:40PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>>2009/8/4 Christopher Faylor:
>>>>>On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:35:25PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>>>>>On 01/08/2009 15:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>>>>I have uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-56.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>This fixes the bug introduced in -53 and -54 which resulted in various
>>>>>>>problems execing programs as seen here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have also been having several issues with this release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1) fork() is consistently failing:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>c209182340 [main] fbpanel 3968 fork: child -1 - died waiting for
>>>>>>longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
>>>>>>can't spawn cmake-gui Error is Failed to fork (Resource temporarily
>>>>>>unavailable)
>>>>
>>>>I have a simple and repro testcase with a fresh un-rebased perl-5.10.1.
>>>>This makes it impossible to get through the testsuite, which always
>>>>passed before.
>>>>
>>>>$ ./perl -Ilib -MPOSIX -e '`perl -e "exit 42"`; print $? ?>> 8' fails
>>>>with the fork error 3 [main] perl 1756 fork: child -1 - died waiting
>>>>for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno
>>>>11 ...
>>>
>>> That's not really a simple testcase since it apparently requires that I
>>> download and build perl. ?I don't see any problems executing the above
>>> command in my fairly clean 1.7.0-56 installation.
>>
>>Sure. I meant to say simple for me :)
>>
>>This is with todays snapshot, and regardless of the name,
>>the peflags or rebase address of the dlopened perl module.
>>
>>I'm trying now a simplier testcase without perl involved. Just dlopen
>>and then fork..
>
> I don't mind if it involves perl as long as I don't have to build perl.

Fixed with cygwin-1.7.0-58, the perl suite runs through now.

Thanks, esp. thanks to Peter Rosin.
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