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Re: 1.5.21: fork in find/ls failing, simple test case


John Hartman wrote:

> Okay, when I stopped the 'Logitech Process Monitor' service the problem goes
> away.  Thanks for the quick diagnosis.
> 
> I rebased the camera dlls but that does not fix this problem.
> 
> Can you tell me what the root cause is?
> 
> Is there any way to prevent this problem?  I.e., the problem of "foreign"
> dlls causing cygwin forks to fail?

It's crappy coding on the part of the Logitech module.  Ross Ridge gives
a convincing argument for what's going on:
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=17999960>.  More
info on the loader lock issue is in this paper:
<http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/DLL_bestprac.mspx>.  Now if
only someone could forward these clues to the idiots that wrote that
Logitech crapware, it would save a whole lot of frustration.

Brian

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