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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: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111116191431.GA7620@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111115192202.GB18893@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16 19:14 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
2011-11-15 15:05       ` marco atzeri
2011-11-15 19:22         ` Christopher Faylor
2011-11-16 19:14           ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2011-11-16 22:01             ` marco atzeri
2011-11-16 22:24               ` Christopher Faylor

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