From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject: Re: DLL init patch for loading cygwin DLL from MSVC app
28 Oct 1998 19:06:42 -0800
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> Did you ever manage to get an strace log on this?  It sounds like that
> would pinpoint the problem pretty quickly.
> 

Actually, there are multiple problems. dll_crt0 is probably really only
appropriate for a cygwin app, and not for a cygwin dll loaded in a non-
cygwin app. If we call dll_crt0, here's some of the problems I see:

  - the first problem is that the global constructors are called multiple 
    times; 
  - it calls exit (user->main), so that needs to be take care, possibly 
    by saving the DLL main, NULL'ing it and then calling dll_crt0. This
    is the easiest one to get around;
  - then the initialization hangs in sigproc_init() -- in makethread;

I think we need to do more than just call dll_crt0 to initialize ...

Regards,
Mumit