On Feb  6 15:15, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 06/02/2018 13:10, Erik Bray wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Users/maintainers of OpenBLAS on Cygwin may be interested in this
> > patch to improve support for fork():
> > https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/pull/1450
> > 
> > Assuming this looks good (feedback welcome) it might be nice to have
> > this patch included in the next release of the official OpenBLAS
> > package for Cygwin since its incompatibility with fork() has caused
> > problems in the past [1].
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > E
> > 
> > [1] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22822
> > 
> 
> 
> Noted.
> Do you have a test case to show the failure with current build ?
> 
> Any reason to use OS_CYGWIN_NT and not __CYGWIN__ in the patch ?

Also, it should really use pthread functions and drop the notion that
Cygwin is a Windows target.  Assuming you're running fork from another
thread than the main thread, does it still work with native Windows
threads?


Corinna

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