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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:55:48PM +0100, Schmidt, Oliver wrote:
>Hi Corinna,
>
>> Would you mind to give the latest developer snapshot from
>> http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try?  It tries very carefully to
>> eliminate concurrency problems in the initialization phase.
>
>I see. With the same scenario as in my original posting I trigger an
>assertion added by Christopher the other day:
>
>assertion "*native_root != '\0'" failed: file "/netrel/src/cygwin-snapshot-20100315-1/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc", line 341, function: void mount_info::create_root_entry(WCHAR*)

How about today's snapshot?  Corinna has YA told me what I did wrong with the
latest round of spinlock changes and today's snapshot reflects her obvious
fix.

cgf

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