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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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