On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:18:35PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>This is coming up because any tcl app that I've built -- including >>>insight -- always dies on exit, as tcl is shutting down its various >>>utility threads. >> >>So why isn't this a problem with the current version of insight then? > >I believe it /is/ a problem, at least on cygwin-1.7. I've tried to >restore my system to "normal", and I see a different behavior on >cygwin-1.5 and cygwin-1.7 with the test below. > >[1.5] $ /usr/bin/wish84.exe /usr/share/tk8.4/demos/hello Hello, world > >works fine. You should see a small window pop up. When you click the >button, "Hello, sorld" is printed to the console and the small window >disappears. The application exits with no problem. > >[1.7] $ /usr/bin/wish84.exe /usr/share/tk8.4/demos/hello Hello, world >Segmentation fault (core dumped) > >Again, you should see a small window pop up. When you click the >button, "Hello, sorld" is printed to the console and the small window >disappears. But then, the application segfaults. > >Similarly, for insight.exe: > >[1.5] $ insight.exe <then choose File->Exit> > >and the application exits without error. But on 1.7: > >[1.7] $ insight.exe <then choose File->Exit> Segmentation fault (core >dumped) > >Can anybody verify this behavior for me, to make sure I haven't somehow >left dregs of my X-based tcl/tk packages lying around on my system?
The version of insight that I built works fine for me on Windows XP SP3. I just tried the sigint problem test case with it and it worked as expected. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple