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Re: Problems with autoconf-2.52 testsuite using current CVS Cygwin
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- Subject: Re: Problems with autoconf-2.52 testsuite using current CVS Cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:48:49 -0400
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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?
cgf