Failure with fork()

Thu Jun 27 19:15:00 GMT 2013

Il 6/27/2013 9:01 PM, Alan W. Irwin ha scritto:
> On 2013年06月27日 11:35-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>> The only Windows platform available to me is Wine. And I have
>> no Cygwin on Wine experience at this stage because this fork bug shut
>> me out. But now that it is fixed in CVS, how do I get access to
>> the fixed version of setup.exe?
>>>> Are there daily snapshot builds of the CVS version I could access?
>> Never mind. I have now found the snapshots page, and the latest one
> contains
>> 013-06-18 Christopher Faylor <me.cygwin2013@cgf.cx>
>> * dcrt0.cc (child_info_fork::alloc_stack): Don't subtract 4096 from
> stack pointer since getstack() already does that.
>> Could someone confirm that is the fork fix of interest here?

Of course not. Corinna solved the problem today
and cygwin1-20130619.dll.bz2 was built last 19th June
so you need to wait the next one.
>> I am somewhat confused by the remark
> at http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots
> that "You cannot use Cygwin Setup to install a snapshot."
>> So what exactly is installed by a snapshot? Is it just the core part
> of Cygwin?

It is just the core cygwin1.dll
The easy way is copy the new one on the current one.
Of course all cygwin processes must be shutdown before..
> Is there enough included in cygwin-inst-YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
> so I can run setup.exe from the installed version of that tarball to
> download and install or update additional Cygwin components that I
> might need?
>> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
>>
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