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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:20:27 -0500
To: Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd AT axonet DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: snapshot-991207
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In-Reply-To: <00F8D6E8AB0DD3118F1A006008186C9607C7CD@server1.axonet.com.au>; from andrewd@axonet.com.au on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:58:02PM +1100

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:58:02PM +1100, Andrew Dalgleish wrote:
>
>> Nope.  I've duplicated it.  I'll see what the problem is.  It doesn't
>> seem to be thread-safe related and it probably isn't even a problem
>> with
>> the new signal code.  It looks like my new mutex-like object is not as
>> robust as I thought.
>> 
>[Andrew Dalgleish]  
>
>This might be related - "echo $(pwd)" outputs just a newline.
>I first observed this in winsup-19991205, but I have not even begun to
>look.
>This was built on NT4sp5 + cygwin B20.1 + Mumit's gcc 2.95 +
>winsup-19991204.

I need more details than this.  What shell are you using?  Does pwd actually
have a value?

cgf