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Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:47:32 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: spawn hangs for non-Cygwin programs
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In-Reply-To:	<3A9D6C7A.8E6A52FF@tensilica.com>; from bwilson@tensilica.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0800

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0800, Bob Wilson wrote:
>I have a Cygwin program that contains the following call to invoke a
>child process:
>
>    pid = spawnvp((int)_P_NOWAIT, argv[0], argv);
>
>Sometime between Cygwin 1.1.4 and 1.1.8 it seems to have stopped
>working.  If the child is another Cygwin program, then everything is
>fine.  If the child was compiled with -mno-cygwin, however, the spawnvp
>call never returns (as if I hadn't specified _P_NOWAIT).
>
>Is this supposed to work?

Yes.

>If not, is it a known problem?

No.

>I'm tentatively planning to rewrite my code to call CreateProcess
>directly but I thought I should report the problem in case no one else
>has encountered this yet.

Or, you could debug the problem in Cygwin and submit a patch.

cgf

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