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Re: YA snapshot available [Re: new snapshot with some tty/WinMe fixes]
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:47:57PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:49:02PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:21:35PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> >On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:52:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:05:53PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> >> >H:\>gcc try_forksetsid.c
>> >> >
>> >> >H:\>sh -c "./a"
>> >> >waiting for children using tty0 to terminate
>> >> >waiting for children using tty0 to terminate
>> >> >
>> >> >It's motivated by a weirdness I saw last night with exim, where the
>> >> >setsid() is present.
>> >>
>> >> Did my latest cvs checkin fix this? It seems to for me but I don't have
>> >> time for extensive testing.
>> >
>> >It does, but when I uncomment the setsid() in the program and run from
>> >command.com, sh -c ./a.exe stays in the foreground (no prompt) when
>> >CYGWIN=notty. Things are OK with CYGWIN=tty.
>>
>> A fix to fhandler_console::close seems to rectify this behavior. Strange
>> that it worked ok on XP.
>
>CYGWIN_ME-4.90 hpn5170x 1.5.6(0.108/3/2) 2004-01-16 23:22 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
>
>Great, all my tty tests pass.
>
>The build problem reported previously persists...
>
>I have observed something else (a few weeks?), fairly reproducible:
>make stops prematurely with a "Hangup" message, as in
As always, in the absence of any debugging detail, I can only fix what I
can duplicate myself.
I'm pretty much at the end of my rope as far as Windows Me is concerned.
I don't intend on devoting much more time to trying to fix it. So,
1.5.6 will probably be released with these problems.
That said, again, I am not seeing any problems myself.
cgf
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