Greetings, Steven Bardwell! > I found the problem that was causing the failure of child creation logic > on the 64-bit install but not on the 32-bit version:
> in an effort to make the output from 'ps' more useful, my application was > over-writing the contents of argv[1] in the main process. This trick works > fine in many flavors of Unix (including Interix and Linux and 32-bit > Cygwin). CYGWIN=wincmdln ? > However, in Cygwin 64-bit, it somehow corrupts things such that the > child process created by fork() or spawnv() failed to load correctly. After > removing that 'feature,' both spawnv() as well as the original fork() logic > work without any problem. Could still be NULL termination problem. If the strings you manipulating are in UTF16, you need TWO \0 to terminate the string. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 07.02.2014, <19:21> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
