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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
To: The Quality-Schmality List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: FW: cygwin-1.dll long-time bug
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4445B212.7000400@byu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002e01c66317$581533e0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

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According to Dave Korn on 4/18/2006 12:38 PM:
> 
>   Well, I think it's reasonable enough to say that cygwin does things that are
> pushing the envelope of what's documented to work in relation to how we handle
> forking and process startup.  After all we just had that lockup caused by the
> fact that you can't even call GetModuleName[*] from DllMain safely.  Things
> happen in an unusual order in cygwin processes and threads, and it's probably
> not something that gets a whole load of testing in microsoft's QA dept.... ;)

They have one?  What are the job qualifications to become a member of that
dept, I wonder?  I bet even a hippo could apply...

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-19  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-18 18:13 Dave Korn
2006-04-18 18:25 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-04-18 18:38   ` Dave Korn
2006-04-19  2:26     ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-04-19 17:06       ` Christopher Faylor
2006-04-19 18:01         ` Dave Korn
2006-04-19  3:44     ` Eric Blake [this message]
2006-04-19  8:28       ` Dave Korn
2006-04-19 12:58         ` Igor Peshansky
2006-04-19 13:46           ` Dave Korn
2006-04-28  9:10 ` Ludovic Drolez
2006-04-19 13:47 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2006-04-19 14:03 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-04-19 14:04 ` Dave Korn

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