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Re: Problems with Xemacs

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:50:35PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:14:46PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>> >On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> >> P.S.: I saw the recent ChangeLog
>> >>  (shared_info::initialize): Don't initialize user stuff if myself doesn't exit.
>> >>  and have been scratching my head about why it's helpful.
>> >
>> >I could be wrong, but I think this is the change that fixed strace -p.  It
>> >was getting a SEGV trying to access the pinfo.
>> 
>> That was one of the changes, yes.
>
>But the user stuff (cygheap->user.init ()) does not touch myself, nor
>any pinfo

myself == 0 is used as a flag that the DLL isn't fully initialized.
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