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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: fork problem on latest cygwin CVS
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111114171105.GA22991@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC13D23.8040705@gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:09:07PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>On 11/14/2011 4:31 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 03:40:32PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>>> Hi Cgf,
>>>
>>>
>>> after updating cygwin CVS build from
>>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2011-q4/msg00063.html
>>> to
>>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2011-q4/msg00064.html .. 66html
>>>
>>> on CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64
>>>
>>> the shell have fork issues during  make/build session.
>>
>> Come on, you know the drill by now.  How about a simple test case?
>
>I know the drill, but I just updated from XP-32 to W7-64,
>one disk crashed, so I am reinstalling everything from scratch and
>taking a test case when building octave is never easy.
>
>So I need time to give you a simple test case, and eventually
>someone else will notice the same problem in advance.
>
>FYI 2011-11-08 snapshot does not suffer such problem.

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.

cgf

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14 14:40 marco atzeri
2011-11-14 15:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-11-14 16:09   ` marco atzeri
2011-11-14 17:11     ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2011-11-15 15:05       ` marco atzeri
2011-11-15 19:22         ` Christopher Faylor
2011-11-16 19:14           ` Christopher Faylor
2011-11-16 22:01             ` marco atzeri
2011-11-16 22:24               ` Christopher Faylor

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