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Subject: Re: pty infinite master control thread spawning problem
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On May 27 12:08, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 26/05/2010 14:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I applied a patch to CVS.  It worked for me, but while testing I
> > encountered a handle leak in your testcase [...]
> >   Please test the change in
> > Cygwin if it fixes the original problem for you.
> 
>   Yes, everything is working fine now, thank you.  (Sorry about the
> distraction over the handle leak, to create the testcase I had to sift through
> 1.6G of strace output to try and find the sequence of syscalls that triggered
> the problem and I guess I overlooked that aspect of it!)

No worries.  As long as it allows to reproduce the problem with a minimum
of code, better a slightly flawed testcase than no testcase at all.


Corinna

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