Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:48:54 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange fork() behaviour under cygwin v1.3.1 Message-ID: <20010521204854.A17791@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010521200657.C17520@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010521200657.C17520@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:06:57PM -0400 On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:06:57PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:56:01AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Andrew de Quincey [mailto:andrew@orbital.co.uk] >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:01 AM >>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >>> Subject: Strange fork() behaviour under cygwin v1.3.1 >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi, I've been playing with the jabber server under win32... >>> and I've run >>> into a slight problem. The following program illustrates it: >>> >>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> #include >> >>Whats ? If it's the GNU portable threads library, and it's using >>a native thread library instead of 100% emulated threads, make sure its >>using pthreads, not win32 threads. (Explanation: Cygwin is ignorant of >>direct win32 thread calls you might make, but it knows about pthreads). > >That's not entirely true. Cygwin should be aware of the fact that the >fork is running in a thread and should duplicate the thread state >correctly. > >The end result will be a child process with a main thread which is a copy >of the thread that called fork in the parent. I just checked and this still works in 1.3.2 for at least a simple test case. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple