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authorChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>2012-05-02 20:48:13 +0400
committerChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>2012-05-02 20:48:13 +0400
commit0386e4bf17c5ab2dca867bda17e0fa20fbd5d7f1 (patch)
treeb2c13e2f81731aedcf0b788bb0c396f1452e8568 /winsup/cygwin/DevNotes
parentb79c0094f8a9bee17aacd59fe7e0334228a8fae8 (diff)
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2012-05-02 cgf-000001
-This fix was due to a bug report on the Cygwin mailing list:
-http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00009.html
+<1.7.15>
+Fix problem setting parent pid to 1 when process with children execs
+itself. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00009.html
+</1.7.15>
-strace showed that ssh-agent was checking the parent pid and getting a 1
-when it shouldn't have. Other stuff looked ok so I chose to consider
-this a smoking gun.
+Investigating this problem with strace showed that ssh-agent was
+checking the parent pid and getting a 1 when it shouldn't have. Other
+stuff looked ok so I chose to consider this a smoking gun.
Going back to the version that the OP said did not have the problem, I
worked forward until I found where the problem first occurred -