Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:00:43 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Subject: Re: Problems with autoconf-2.52 testsuite using current CVS Cygwin Message-ID: <20010805100043.P23782@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygdev Mail-Followup-To: Corinna Vinschen , cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com References: <3B649305 DOT 2090302 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3B64C0A9 DOT 1080700 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3B64F567 DOT 6060304 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3B65835C DOT 9000001 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3B65A2B8 DOT 90702 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3B66CC47 DOT 8040704 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3B6711C9 DOT 6050700 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3B6C3A4F DOT 3070502 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <20010804144307 DOT A3038 AT redhat DOT com> <20010804204849 DOT A5764 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010804204849.A5764@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:48:49PM -0400 On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:48:49PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:43:07PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >It seems like Corinna has tracked this down to a potential problem with > >vfork but I don't really understand what that is. It could well be a > >problem with ash's use of vfork, too. > > AFAICT, this is an ash problem. ash was clearing it's trap list after a > program executed due to its thinking that it was in a forked process > rather than a vforked process where such an activity would clear the > parent. So, none of the cleanup was done. > > I checked in a couple of changes to rectify this. > > Corinna, could you release an experimental version of ash and see if it > solves everyone's problems? I have added ash-20010805-1 as test version to sourceware. It runs the autoconf testsuite now perfectly fine (for me). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.