Charles Wilson wrote: > So it looks to me like something in cwdstuff::init() triggered a signal, > which was caught by cygwin and handled by aborting. >> Does that analysis look right? It certainly does. > [ ... ] appears that the child is dying in dcrt0.c dll_crt0_1() when it > calls cygheap->cwd.init(). That so rings a bell, I'm sure I've had that happen to me or seen or read it before somewhere. Is that maybe where it crashed when the DLL was in the root dir of a drive and it wasn't able to ascend up a level to find the definition of '/' after assuming the dll had to be in '/bin'? cheers, DaveK -- 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