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Re: Problems with autoconf-2.52 testsuite using current CVS Cygwin
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- Subject: Re: Problems with autoconf-2.52 testsuite using current CVS Cygwin
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:00:43 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:48:49PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:43:07PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >It seems like Corinna has tracked this down to a potential problem with
> >vfork but I don't really understand what that is. It could well be a
> >problem with ash's use of vfork, too.
>
> AFAICT, this is an ash problem. ash was clearing it's trap list after a
> program executed due to its thinking that it was in a forked process
> rather than a vforked process where such an activity would clear the
> parent. So, none of the cleanup was done.
>
> I checked in a couple of changes to rectify this.
>
> Corinna, could you release an experimental version of ash and see if it
> solves everyone's problems?
I have added ash-20010805-1 as test version to sourceware.
It runs the autoconf testsuite now perfectly fine (for me).
Corinna
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