fork problem on latest cygwin CVS

[marco atzeri]

On 11/16/2011 8:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:22:02PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:04:16PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>>> On 11/14/2011 6:11 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>>> FYI, the last thing any developer wants to hear after a major code
>>>> change is a generic "It's broke" report with no details and no way to
>>>> duplicate the problem.  A stack trace from a home-grown version of
>>>> cygwin1.dll is not a detail.  It's meaningless unless the addresses are
>>>> decoded.
>>>
>>> Ok,
>>> rewinding to step 1
>>>
>>> I simplified the test case to a short one, involving just 1 make call,
>>> using your snapshot
>>
>> Amazingly short.  Thanks very much! I can duplicate this and will fix
>> it.
>
> I've made some changes and can no longer duplicate the problem from your
> test case.  If you can confirm that the latest snapshot works for you I
> would appreciate it.
>
> As it turns out, this was a change I was planning on making "at some
> point in the future".  The future, apparently, is now.
>
> cgf
>

CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111116 04:41:29 i686 Cygwin

passed my crash test:
a full build of octave binary from scratch plus the make check.


Regards
Marco


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