Christopher Morlier wrote on 25 March 2008 20:08: > Hi Everyone, > For a couple of years I have noticed that when I run programs from > within Cygwin (currently 1.5.24-2), if the program crashes (ie segfault) > then the program gets automatically restarted. This is primarily a > problem when compiling/testing a windows program I am developing > (compiled with MSVC), as I have to wait for the program to > restart so I > can shut it down. It seems like this hasn't always been the behavior, > although it has been for several years (in the past, it just didn't > effect me as much).
Yep. Because it's a non-cygwin child process, cygwin doesn't realise it's started and crashed, it thinks the process creation suffered a temporary failure and has up to 5 retries. > > I was wondering, is this a bug or a feature? Feature. > And if it is a > feature is there a way to prevent it from happening? Recompile the dll, with attention to sigproc.cc: int child_info::retry_count = 10; and the way that child_info::proc_retry decrements the 'retry' counter which is initialised to that value. See also the thread at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2008-q1/msg00063.html and particularly http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2008-q1/msg00066.html 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/
