Re: [patch] recognise when an exec()d process terminates due to unhandled exception

2008-03-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: That was going to be my first observation, actually. I'm still trying to digest the patch but it seems like it wouldn't work well with the fork retry code. The patch doesn't change any behavior though: in current Cygwin if the thing we're exec()ing returns a Win32

Re: [patch] cygcheck.cc update for cygpath()

2008-03-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yuk. I guess it would help a lot to reproduce path.cc:check_shortcut(*) in utils as close as possible. Afaics it doesn't use any code which would be restricted to Cygwin, except for the call to mount_table-conv_to_posix_path in the posixify method. I started down