From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru>
To: GNU Win 32 <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>,
"'Colman Curtin'" <ccurtin@trintech.com>
Subject: RE: forking vim gui
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01BCD632.343FDA40@sos> (raw)
Colman Curtin wrote:
> folks
> Having successfully compiled my fav editor vim a while back.
> How come when I launch it as 'gvim' or 'vim -g' which causes vim to fork
the
> gui version I get an exception.
> However if I launch it as 'vim -g -f' which launches the gui but doesn't
> return to the shell it work fine.
> But if I launch it as above but use bash to background it 'vim -g -f &'
it all
> works fine and I get bash back?
>
> vim5.0m, Sergey's latest dll and bash, win95 16MB
>
> any ideas?
It's a bug of cygwin - .bss/.data sections of dll's are not copied to a
child on fork(). Someone in this list wrote about related fixes he made,
but I never saw the fixes itself :-(
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next reply other threads:[~1997-10-10 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-10 23:40 Sergey Okhapkin [this message]
1997-10-12 22:05 ` Victor Hugo Ochoa Garza
1997-10-13 9:19 ` Jesse L. Marlin
1997-10-13 10:28 ` Bartlee A. Anderson
1997-10-13 19:00 ` Charles Curley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-10-10 3:18 Colman Curtin
1997-10-11 12:53 ` Alex
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