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Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem


On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:18:09PM +0000, Cliff Hones wrote:
>Can this explain failures to initialize executables which don't use threads?
>I don't know, but I wouldn't have thought 'ls' uses threads.

Every cygwin application (and probably every windows application) uses
threads.  The above scenario only happens when there is a system thread
starting before cygwin is initialized but there are sometimes mysterious
threads being started during process initialization.

cgf

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