Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/28/14:08:53
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:28:13PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>I did trace this problem an it looks like a race in Cygwin but I may be
>wrong. Here I am providing two backtraces from a debug session - the first
>one shows what happens normally and the second one shows the hang:
I appreciate that you fired up gdb to look into the problem but Cygwin
is a multi-threaded application. You need to look at all of the threads
if you figure out a potential race.
>P.S. While looking at this I noticed that Cygwin's wait family of
>functions won't return 0 if WNOHANG is passed and no children are found
>that match the wait criteria - JFYI.
AFAICT, Cygwin returns 0 in a WNOHANG criteria, just like linux.
If you have evidence to the contrary, a simple test case would be
helpful.
cgf
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