1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

[Andy Koppe]

On 11 August 2010 20:55, John Carey wrote:
> On Aug 11 01:49 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> there's no Win32-safe way to set a new
>> directory handle as cwd in Vista and later anymore.  Since there's no
>> official API to set the cwd using a directory handle, there's no way to
>> set the Win32 cwd to a directory with restricted permissions.
>> This *is* frustrating.
>>
>> I'll look into another solution.  Probably we will have to call
>> SetCurrentDirectory again and ignore any error.  I don't accept the
>> aforementioned restriction for POSIX calls.
>
> So is your idea that if SetCurrentDirectory() fails because
> of path length or permissions, then Cygwin would just accept
> the failure and keep an internal record the
> POSIX current working directory and use that for all
> Cygwin calls, not the Win32 notion of current directory?

Yes. The question then becomes what to do about the Win32 working
directory in that case.

Andy

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