On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:13:50PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >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.
set CYGWIN=proc_retry:1 is a much less intrusive way of dealing with this. cgf -- 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/
