Hi Tom, On Nov 13 23:01, Tom Honermann wrote: > On 12/21/2012 01:30 AM, Tom Honermann wrote: > >[...] > >When the race condition results in the undesirable outcome, the exit > >code for the process is set to the exit code for the secondary thread's > >call to ExitThread(). I can only speculate at this point, but my guess > >is that the TerminateProcess() code disassociates the calling thread > >from the process before other threads are stopped such that > >ExitThread(), concurrently running in another thread, may determine that > >the calling thread is the last thread of the process and overwrite the > >process exit code. > >[...] > > Time passes... > > I worked with some former colleagues to report this issue to > Microsoft. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 contain a fix > that addresses the test case above. A hotfix has been made > available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Should > anyone desire a hotfix for other versions of Windows, it will be > necessary to open a case with Microsoft to request it. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2875501 > > Tom.
thanks for letting us know! I'm very glad to read that this is an OS bug and a fix is available. At least partially. I'm a bit confused. As far as I understand it this is the situation now: Vista/2008 and earlier: no fix available. W7/2008R2: only hotfix for manual installation W8/2012: no fix available. W8.1/2012R2: fixed. Did I get that right? That sounds a bit weird... Thanks again, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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