Can you confirm it works under XP as well? If so I'll apply it to stability. Jim
On Nov 22, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi all, > > See the attached patch, it kind of speaks for itself. > > I don't know why, but looks like Win7 doesn't allow cloning > a handle from the current process and then setting its access > to INHERIT. I guess this is a security measure, but it should > be just fine if we clone it and keep the current permissions > because if *we* aren't allowed to inherit it, there's nothing we > can do about it anyway to make it inheritable for the child. > > The error handling in Windows was completely broken; the errmap > loop updated map, but looked at errmap. I've made it a little more > idiomatic, so it's "obviously correct". So far the errno isn't > really used anywhere. It looks like this exists only because errno > is foolishly exposed to the user via the posix-error and errno > procedures, and for that to sort-of work (it doesn't), this strange > conversion is being done. Reworking that will be like opening a > whole other can of worms, so I kept it closed for the time being, > at least until 4.9.0 is released. > > I think this patch should go into the stability branch. > > Cheers, > Peter > -- > http://www.more-magic.net > <0001-Fix-process-under-Windows-and-fix-general-error-hand.patch>_______________________________________________ > Chicken-hackers mailing list > Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
