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Subject: Re: cygwin crash: 'assertion "root_idx != -1" failed ...' reliably  reproduced  on my system
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 03:00:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:40:37PM -0500, Bill Meier wrote:
>> From time to time I've been
>>getting 'assertion "root_idx != -1" failed ...' cygwin crashes.
>
>I've found that this is usually a race that happens when you start two
>Cygwin programs at the same time.  It's fixable but it will require some
>locking of Cygwin's shared memory.

I believe that this should be fixed in the latest snapshot.

cgf

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