This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: vfork always fail problem
On May 20 11:43, Huang Bambo wrote:
> 2010/5/20 Huang Bambo <bambo.huang@gmail.com>:
> >> Huang,
> >>
> >> you - as the person who first saw and documented the problem in public
> >> (thank you!) - are in the best position to test it, if you can recreate the
> >> original situation (with the GBK(?) directory names).
> >>
> >> It would be beneficial to all of us, and you would be doing everybody a
> >> favour (if you wish, which is your choice), if you could test if the problem
> >> reproduces with Cygwin 1.7.5, and goes away with the snapshot.
> >
> > fork() now work well but find new problem after use the 0518 patch.
> > Usually I use mintty to as the default term tool. After use this patch, I can't
> > directly use mintty to open the first shell( like nothing happened), I
> > must use Cygwin.bat to create
> > a fist shell, then use short cut of mintty in the start menu to open others.
> >
> > I'll find out why if I have time.
>
> terminate while calling forkpty().
I'm using mintty with the latest from CVS and I can't reproduce this.
Mintty starts just fine from a shortcut with target
"C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -".
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple