On Aug 27 18:40, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> nprocs is the number of children, not the number of deceased children.
> The incorrect comment used to apply to a variable nzombies. The
> latter was removed in commit 8cb359d9 in 2004, but the comment was
> never updated.
> ---
> winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
> index a5cf73bde..30c799f8c 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ char NO_COPY myself_nowait_dummy[1] = {'0'};// Flag to
> sig_send that signal goes
> #define Static static NO_COPY
>
>
> -Static int nprocs; // Number of deceased children
> +Static int nprocs; // Number of children
> Static char cprocs[(NPROCS + 1) * sizeof (pinfo)];// All my children info
> #define procs ((pinfo *) cprocs) // All this just to avoid expensive
> // constructor operation at DLL startup
> --
> 2.28.0
I have this already in the loop together with other changes in that
code snippet.
Thanks,
Corinna
