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[newlib-cygwin] child_info::child_info: Fix a comment


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=b87224fba54587141253fe960f1134dcda94ddc4

commit b87224fba54587141253fe960f1134dcda94ddc4
Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Date:   Tue Dec 15 17:14:08 2015 +0100

    child_info::child_info: Fix a comment

Diff:
---
 winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
index 4ebcb0a..60c931d 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc
@@ -776,13 +776,8 @@ child_info::child_info (unsigned in_cb, child_info_types chtype,
      This seems to be a bug in Vista's WOW64, which apparently copies the
      lpReserved2 datastructure not using the cbReserved2 size information,
      but using the information given in the first DWORD within lpReserved2
-     instead.  32 bit Windows and former WOW64 don't care if msv_count is 0
-     or a sensible non-0 count value.  However, it's not clear if a non-0
-     count doesn't result in trying to evaluate the content, so we do this
-     really only for Vista 64 for now.
-
-     Note: It turns out that a non-zero value *does* harm operation on
-     XP 64 and 2K3 64 (Crash in CreateProcess call).
+     instead.  However, it's not clear if a non-0 count doesn't result in
+     trying to evaluate the content, so we do this really only for Vista 64.
 
      The value is sizeof (child_info_*) / 5 which results in a count which
      covers the full datastructure, plus not more than 4 extra bytes.  This


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