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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:24:10 -0800
From: Bob Wilson <bwilson AT tensilica DOT com>
Organization: Tensilica, Inc.
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Subject: spawn hangs for non-Cygwin programs
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I have a Cygwin program that contains the following call to invoke a
child process:

    pid = spawnvp((int)_P_NOWAIT, argv[0], argv);

Sometime between Cygwin 1.1.4 and 1.1.8 it seems to have stopped
working.  If the child is another Cygwin program, then everything is
fine.  If the child was compiled with -mno-cygwin, however, the spawnvp
call never returns (as if I hadn't specified _P_NOWAIT).

Is this supposed to work?  If not, is it a known problem?  I'm
tentatively planning to rewrite my code to call CreateProcess directly
but I thought I should report the problem in case no one else has
encountered this yet.

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Bob Wilson                      Tel: (408) 327-7312
Tensilica, Inc.                 Fax: (408) 986-8919
3255-6 Scott Blvd.              email: bwilson AT tensilica DOT com
Santa Clara, CA 95054

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