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Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

On 12 August 2010 13:50, Earnie wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> ÂOr don't start the Win32 app at all if the path is not valid. However
>> Âwe have to call SetCurrentDirectory at least once, for the first
>> ÂCygwin app, into a spot it doesn't block the aforementioned rmdir.

Uh oh, that might cause additional aggro.

>> ÂC:\ comes to mind. ÂIt's the one directory which always exists and
>> Âit's not removable anyway.
>>
>
> That should be SYSTEMDRIVE and not a hard C:\. ÂThere is no guarantee that
> C: drive is present.

Or the Cygwin base directory? Or /bin, i.e. the directory the DLL is
in? These couldn't be deleted anyway, and it'd be slighty less
catastrophic if things went wrong there ...

Andy
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