Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:18:09PM +0000, Cliff Hones wrote: >> Can this explain failures to initialize executables which don't use >> threads? I don't know, but I wouldn't have thought 'ls' uses threads. > > Every cygwin application (and probably every windows application) uses > threads. The above scenario only happens when there is a system thread > starting before cygwin is initialized but there are sometimes mysterious > threads being started during process initialization. > > cgf
I wonder if they sometimes get started from DllEntry of hook dlls? That could account for some of the AV/PFW problems we see reported. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/