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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:22:36 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: core dev member please: Re: Strange fork() behaviour under cygwin v1.3.1
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In-Reply-To: <EA18B9FA0FE4194AA2B4CDB91F73C0EF08EFFD@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:45:24AM +1000

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:45:24AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>> 
>> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:26:03AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >Chris or another core dev member will need to comment on this.
>> >
>> >Personally, I'd suggest trotting off to the pth folk with a 
>> bug report.
>> >(It works with pthreads and native win32 threads - so pth is the
>> >problem).
>> 
>> I was actually not responding because I don't have the 
>> slightest idea why
>> this would fail, although it is my code.  As I indicated, my 
>> test case for
>> having fork run from another thread works fine.
>
>Ditto - in fact you did respond before. I was referring to the fact that
>pth apparently diddles the stack among other things? 

Right.  That is what I wasn't responding to.  :-)

I'm not particularly interested in debugging another application's use
of a thread.  Sorry.

I can't even offer any suggestions about how to debug this.  If it is
failing at this level then something is fundamentally wrong.

cgf

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