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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:16:53 -0500
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
Cc: cygdev <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: snapshot-991207
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In-Reply-To: <38502FE6.B0716D4@vinschen.de>; from corinna@vinschen.de on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:40:38PM +0100

On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:40:38PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:16:19PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >Since using the new signal handling code I'm missing C:\WINNT but
>> >no serious problems here ;-)
>> 
>> You got me.  My heart actually stopped for a second, thinking that
>> I'd messed up your hard disk.
>> 
>> Phew.
>
>Sorry Chris but I do have problems found with the new snapshot.
>Actually tcsh doesn't work. Very frequently the forked child hangs
>before it could do it's exec call. From another shell you can
>kill the child but not from the parent with, say, Ctrl-C.
>Unfortunately `very frequently' means `unusable' because it's
>really _very_ often (7 of 9 forks ;-)
>
>I don't have that much time, but if you wish I try to send you an
>strace, though.

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.

cgf