From 51180c08ed6a11a2dab5dc8b591bab1e84054118 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Faylor Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 15:28:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add additional observation to cgf-000003 --- winsup/cygwin/DevNotes | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/DevNotes b/winsup/cygwin/DevNotes index 59cda286f..b9d031f1e 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/DevNotes +++ b/winsup/cygwin/DevNotes @@ -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,