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Re: about cygwin_stackdump()


> You made it harder than necessary to debug your problem.
>
> If you had created a very small test case which demonstrated the issue
> with clear instructions for building it, then this back and forth
> wouldn't be necessary.
>
> Actually, even that would likely not have been necessary if you had just
> provided the error message that you were getting from fopen().
>
> i.e., http://cygwin.com/problems.html

sorry for bother you about this.

> Exporting this function is an ancient mistake but we are stuck with
> keeping it around to maintain backwards compatibility.  There is
> no guarantee that the stackdump you get from this is correct and
> we have no plans on augmenting it further.
>
> That said, however, I've made changes to cause the file handle of
> the stackdump file to be closed.  It will be in today's snapshot when
> it shows up.
>
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

ACK, thanks.

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