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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 01:34:25 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygthread + rxvt
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:15:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:21:07PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>>Chris,
>>
>>I've picked up your latest cygthread.cc patch from a couple of
>>hours back and I'm not getting far now.  The most obvious problem
>>I'm having is rxvt spinning when launched via:
>>
>>c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe rxvt -ls -e bash --login -i
>>
>>I'm also getting core dumps elsewhere, which I'll go check in a
>>moment.  If you need anymore information, give me a shout.  All
>>this is with a clean copy of the latest HEAD CVS compiled w/
>>debugging enabled.
>
>Hmm.  I could have SWORN that I specifically tested rxvt before checking
>in my changes but apparently I didn't because it is definitely not work.
>
>Sorry about that.  I'll take a look.

Yep.  That was an interesting race.  Like most races, it was really
obvious once I found it.

It seems to work ok now but I haven't tested it rigorously.  I was lulled
into a false sense of security before when I really *had* tested rxvt.
I just didn't try it enough times to notice that it failed 50% of the
time at least.

cgf