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Re: core dev member please: Re: Strange fork() behaviour under cygwin v1.3.1
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:45:24AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
>>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:26:03AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >Chris or another core dev member will need to comment on this.
>> >
>> >Personally, I'd suggest trotting off to the pth folk with a
>> bug report.
>> >(It works with pthreads and native win32 threads - so pth is the
>> >problem).
>>
>> I was actually not responding because I don't have the
>> slightest idea why
>> this would fail, although it is my code. As I indicated, my
>> test case for
>> having fork run from another thread works fine.
>
>Ditto - in fact you did respond before. I was referring to the fact that
>pth apparently diddles the stack among other things?
Right. That is what I wasn't responding to. :-)
I'm not particularly interested in debugging another application's use
of a thread. Sorry.
I can't even offer any suggestions about how to debug this. If it is
failing at this level then something is fundamentally wrong.
cgf
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