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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 02:01:30 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygthread + rxvt
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 07:01:37AM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>"Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
>> Yep.  That was an interesting race.  Like most races, it was
>really
>> obvious once I found it.
>
>Sometimes I feel deflated after finding bugs: so interesting to
>find but boring and trivial once found (and then there's testing).
>
>> 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.
>
>I'll add my 2c of testing in a moment.  And thanks for the mount_h
>patch: from where I'd got in my vacant gazing at the code it looks
>right.  I'm going to have to draw a bl**dy big picture of the
>whole DLL initialization / fork / spawn system one day; either
>that or continue to limp along and hope someone more knowledgable
>will fix the problems I find (or create) :-)

Hey when you track them down so well, it's easy enough to fix them.

The mount_h stuff still isn't "right" now that I think about it but
it's 2AM so I should probably stop coding.

cgf