From: djw AT sage1 DOT sagecorp DOT com (Darren Whittaker) Subject: cygwin.dll bug 26 Jun 1997 10:05:22 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-cc: dhills AT icentral DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, I would like to report a bug in cygwin.dll. I have a small program in which the last thing it does is to use the system() call. When this program is run under bash it works just fine, but when I run it under the NT command line or as a cgi under IIS it fails, leaving the program started by the system() call forever looping generating a stack trace. This worked fine until I upgrade to b18, which I noticed changed system(). In trying to debug the problem it appears that the parent is being told by system() that everything completed okay so my program terminates but the background program is still trying to run! If I place a sleep() after the system() call then my program works. This program is for a WEB project and needs to work, I would appreciate any help that you can give me. I know that this is an "unsupported" product and if I can help please let me know. Thank you, Darren ------------------ Darren Whittaker Senior Software Engineer ICentral, Inc. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".