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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 1999 21:48:19 -0400
To:	Steve Jorgensen <steve AT khoral DOT com>
Cc:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: Wierd perl problem..
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In-Reply-To:	<199910212318.RAA03227@benson>; from Steve Jorgensen on Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 05:18:29PM -0600

I'm sorry.  There is a problem with using dll's after a fork with perl.
That's what you're seeing.

There is no workaround.  I hope to fix this in the next couple of months.

cgf

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 05:18:29PM -0600, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>	I'm having a really strange perl problem under cygwin 1.0
>
>	One perl script produces the following output:
>
>   0	0 [main] d:\Cygwin\contrib\bin\perl.exe 1114 fork_copy: loaded dll data/bss pass 0 failed, 0x14043000..0x1404300C, done 0, Win32 error 487
>
>	and then hangs that shell window half the time.
>
>	This happens when the perl script is executing the following line
>	of code:
>
>chop($LOCALHOST = `hostname`);
>
>	hostname is in the path, and works fine.  
>
>	This only seems to happen if the script has a
>use FileHandle;
>	line after the initialization stuff I describe above,
>	another script with the exact same initialization section
>	as the one described above works fine.  
>
>	Is there something I need to do to get the FileHandle
>	stuff working under cygwin, or am I just out of luck?

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