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Re: snapshots vs. Win9x


On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:55:03AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Eric Blake on 3/8/2006 10:10 PM:
>>I've been running the 20060227 successfully for several days now on
>>Win98, so I tried upgrading today.  However, something introduced
>>between 20060227 and 20060301 causes all cygwin processes to hang on
>>exit; and the situation is not improved all the way through 20060308.
>
>20060313 fixes the situation - I can once again run the latest snapshot
>on Win98.  Thanks cgf for your hard work, and for putting up with all
>these mailing list complaints.

You beat me to the punch.  I was going to mention that I thought I'd fixed
this in the latest snapshot but I was running a long build on Win98 before
I announced success.  It was a very tricky problem to fix.

Basically, cygwin has been broken wrt signal handling for a few functions
for a couple of years.  Fixing that uncovered a Windows 98 oddity which had
gone undetected for years.

cgf

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