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Re: xinted rsync bluescreen

Pierre,

Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

AFAICT the handle is opened when starting cygwin and is inherited by
child processes. It is used in a WaitForSingleObject call.
The purpose is to rescan /etc/{passwd,goup} after changes.
It's unlikely to be a coincidence, given the previous e-mails!

That's extremely interresting.


Good questions! Perhaps init has more subprocesses (wild guess).
Even wilder guess: init starts a lot of processes whose parent process terminate while their children keep running. Perhaps the combination of this, the inherited handle and, possibly, user context switching becomes to much for poor old windows?

/dan



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