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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:28:39 -0500
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On 11/15/2012 3:55 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Question: What are the odds that a posted strace snippet would not
> contain anything useful for debugging a problem?
>
> Answer: Nearly 100%
>
Thought it might give a clue as to which process was not able to fork. 
And that someone might be able to tell me how to attach a debugger to 
that process given that information.  It was admittedly a bit of a 
stretch.

> The answer to your question, which will probably be taken as flip, is:
> you can debug the problem by diving into the cygwin source code.  If it
> isn't just a simple rebase problem then the solution would lie there.

Since it works with a smaller length PATH I would also think that rebase 
would help. I have recently run rebase with no errors for what that is 
worth.

 From your comment, I would take it that you think that the issue is in 
the cygwin dll itself and not bash or git.

So, I guess you would suggest building a debug cygwin dll, and then 
using gdb on git to try and find out where fork fails?

Thanks.

-Bill


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