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Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:08:10PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Brian Ford wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > So, once again, I'd like to finally release this thing and so I'm asking
>> > for testing help. You all should know the drill by now but, just in case
>> > you don't:
>>
>> This isn't a recent regression, and it may not even be supported, but I
>> thought I'd report it. I'm also working on a STC, but just in case the
>> description is good enough to get it fixed...
>>
>> When doing a fork/exec of a non-cygwin process and subsequently sending it
>> a signal (I know, probably not supported) the cygwin stub process receives
>> the signal (confirmed by strace), but it tries to call the handler
>> previously installed by the parent process (if there was one, and in my
>> case there was) instead of doing the SIG_DFL action (in this case,
>> exiting). The result is that the process does not exit and hangs (both
>> the stub and the non-cygwin process).
>>
>> If this isn't enough, please respond with "not enough info" and I'll
>> supply the STC, cygcheck, etc.
>
>Here ya go. Self explanatory STC and cygcheck attached.
As you noted, this is not a regression from 1.5.18. It is not going to
be fixed for 1.5.19.
cgf
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