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Subject: Re: spawn doesn't return for non-cygwin programs (and also is unbreakable)
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On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 04:02:20PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>I recently tripped over the following problem: If a non-cygwin
>program gets started by cygwin's spawnvp() the spawn doesn't return
>until the started program returns.

Should be fixed in the latest snapshot.  Thanks for the test case.

cgf

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