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Add additional observation to cgf-000003

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Christopher Faylor 2012-05-07 15:28:40 +00:00
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@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ fix the problem. On further investigation, this seems to be caused by
the fact that the shared memory region pid handles were still being
passed to non-cygwin children, keeping the pid alive in a limbo-like
fashion. This was easily fixed by having pinfo::init() consider a
memory region with PID_REAPED as not available.
memory region with PID_REAPED as not available. A more robust fix
should be considered for 1.7.15+ where these handles are not passed
to non-cygwin processes.
This fixed the problem where a pid showed up in the list after a user
does something like: "bash$ cmd /c start notepad" but, for some reason,