From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 46098 invoked by alias); 1 May 2015 14:25:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 46079 invoked by uid 9078); 1 May 2015 14:25:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 46071 invoked by uid 89); 1 May 2015 14:25:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mout.gmx.net Received: from mout.gmx.net (HELO mout.gmx.net) (212.227.15.18) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 01 May 2015 14:25:18 +0000 Received: from www.dscho.org ([87.106.4.80]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Mdren-1Ye5eN3Snd-00Pgd0; Fri, 01 May 2015 16:25:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 14:50:00 -0000 From: Johannes Schindelin To: Takashi Yano , Corinna Vinschen Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Regression on XP with "Fix OPOST for non-Cygwin pty slaves" Message-ID: X-Sender: johannes.schindelin@gmx.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.0 X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20150501145000.bI4UHGR50aQwreyKb7IwLjWHCM1wrowtCHUf4qsPvZc@z> Hi Yano & Corinna, I would like to ask you for help with fixing a regression I am experiencing on XP (and XP only, the problem does not occur with Windows 7 or 8). It may be a 32-bit issue, but I cannot currently test on 64-bit XP. Background: I am the maintainer of Git for Windows and we are hoping to release a new major release Real Soon Now, based on MSys2 (which in turn is based on Cygwin). To make the user experience a bit better, we want to allow users to double-click a "Git Bash" icon that simply launches a small, non-console MinGW executable which in turn basically sets up the PATH and MSYSTEM environment variables (as required for the MSys2 runtime) and then launches a mintty with a bash inside. Please note that this small executable is *not* a console program but a GUI one (-mwindows instead of -mconsole) so that no console window flashes before the mintty window is shown. Now, this strategy worked well so far, except that I recently found that Git Bash does not start in XP anymore, instead the mintty process just sits and waits for a while and after five to ten minutes, the mintty window appears with the message: Failed to fork child process: Resource temporarily unavailable. DLL rebasing may be required. See 'rebaseall --help'. (Needless to say, a 'rebaseall' does not fix it.) This problem does *not* occur if I call mintty from a `.bat` file or from `cmd` -- but as I said, I want to avoid flashing console windows -- and it also does not happen if I run a mintty from a freshly installed Cygwin (with cygwin package version 2.0.1-1) where the shortcut points directly to `mintty` which is a console application. This symptom makes me believe that the culprit might be that msys-2.0.dll somehow expected an attached Win32 Console, and spins in circles when there is none. Now, please note that I do *not* run a regular cygwin1.dll but rather an msys-2.0.dll that I had to patch even more to support users of the previous Git for Windows version (which was based on MSys1 and did things like allowing users to override their home directory using the HOME environment variable). Starting with the diff on top of cygwin1.dll's sources, I bisected the problem down to the commit "Fix OPOST for non-Cygwin pty slaves": https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=063e7da36fda3f42619d7df606d9f3d4920605aa With this commit reverted, on top of the MSys2 and the Git for Windows patches, the mintty window appears correctly again when launched on 32-bit XP via said GUI executable. You can see my current state here: https://github.com/git-for-windows/msys2-runtime/tree/aae52e6d23e92cf71e6f7777ff9bb49588be8fdc I would like to ask you for advice how to debug this regression further because I really would like to revert the revert and have a proper fix. Or maybe you have an idea how I can fix it directly? Thanks, Johannes -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple