From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergey Okhapkin To: GNU Win 32 , "'Colman Curtin'" Subject: RE: forking vim gui Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <01BCD632.343FDA40@sos> X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00230.html 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 :-( -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".