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On Apr 24 19:00, Daniel Santos wrote: > On 04/24/2017 10:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > I'm going with my patch for now. Mainly because I added some debug > > output to see if we need the Sleep loop at all. Right now I don't see > > any situation which would qualify for this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Corinna > > Thanks for your help on this Corinna! > > I'm inclined to agree about the sleep loop. I have concerns about leaving > these odd "ghost" process entries in and I have concerns about whacking them > for all dynamic loads of cygwin1.dll. :) The only cleaner solution that I > can think of us to set an environment variable (or value in CYGWIN) to tell > cygwin1.dll not to call pinfo::thisproc() in > child_info_spawn::handle_spawn() -- that still feels like a bandaid. (I > suppose there's also using LoadLibraryEx and if there's some parameter we > can pass to the DLL from there.) > > Incidentally, when I debug strace with gdb the problem does away. Thus, I've > been debugging this by littering the code with OutputDebugStringA()s, > sometimes adding some Sleep delays, recompiling, exiting, restarting sshd, > etc. Is there an easier way to debug stuff like this? > > Either way, I want to better understand how all of the cases of how > cygwin1.dll is loaded and processes are inited. Searching the code, I see > that cygcheck also uses LoadLibrary, as well as cygwin::connector::connector > (const char *dll) (although I can't tell what that is for). > > I have to run, so I'll get back to this later. I'm looking forward to any improvement in this area. Thanks, Cornna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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