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From:	"Norman Vine" <nhv AT cape DOT com>
To:	"'Robert Collins'" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>,
	<cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc:	<jason AT tishler DOT net>, <gsmith AT nc DOT rr DOT com>
Subject:	RE: fork and mutexs
Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:44:30 -0400
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Robert Collins writes:
>
>I've just checked in a fix for mutexs, condition variables and
>semaphores in forked process's. I'm amazed we haven't had more
>complaints about this not working before now...
>
>Jason, could you please try your python again. The fix makes the test
>case I created (remember the Pthread_test suite I sent you a while back)
>pass, but there may be more daemons lurk()ing.

Robert

This fails sporadically < sometimes passes, but usually fails  > 
the python forking regression test with the following error message

python.exe *** Forked() while a mutex has condition variables waiting on it

Let me know what else I can do to help.

Cheers

Norman

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