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Re: 20120523: bug in fork/exec
On May 25 15:10, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2012-05-25 04:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On May 25 03:26, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> >>With the 20120523 snapshot, if a process attempts to fork/exec
> >
> >Which snapshot shows this effect first?
>
> Ouch, it starts with 20120309.
Thanks. That would mean a single change is the culprit, but I need
a way to reproduce the problem to be able to fix it (other than just
reverting the patch).
> FWIW, here is the fork() code I discovered this with:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/gspawn.c?id=2.32.3
That's a bit heavy as far as testcases go. Thing is, I can't reproduce
it. If that's a generic problem, shouldn't this also occur when trying
to start a program from bash or tcsh? I deliberately removed a DLL from
my system, but there is no hang at all when trying to start an affected
application.
Can you please provide a simple testcase? If you can reproduce it with
given binaries from the distro, I don't need source code, just the steps
and the names of the binaries to reproduce.
Corinna
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