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Re: gnome-keyring bug in snapshots


On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 14:27 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The real problem seemed to be a change introduced after 1.7.9 which
> subtly broke the handling of signals during I/O.  That should be fixed
> in the latest snapshot but, like so much of what I've worked on in Cygwin
> lately, it touched a fundamental part of the code.  I wish I hadn't had
> to make this change just before 1.7.10 but, in theory, it should make
> it possible for a signal handler to be caught in a thread - that's a first
> for Cygwin and it's something I've been meaning to get to for a while.

The 20111204 snapshot fixes gnome-keyring.  Thanks!

> This isn't perfect though and I hope that doesn't mean that I've
> introduced other corner case problems.

I'll continue testing CVS HEAD and see what happens.  How much more
churn are you planning before 1.7.10?


Yaakov



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