vimdiff sharing violation race condition when diffing .bashrc [Was: Re: Trouble with vimdiff and strace on most recent cygwin]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Thomas Shanks wrote: ... > $ vimdiff /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/.bashrc > 2 files to edit > 7 [?47h [27m [24m [0m [H [J [25;1H"/etc/skel/.bashrc" 130L, 3754C > "~/.bashrc" [25;13H [K [25;13H135L, 3884C 1 [main] gvim 175

Answer: How to fix error "strace: error creating process vim, (error 2)"

DEVS: PLEASE file the missing error message text in strace (a cygwin-specific program!) as a bug, as the error message isn't missing (and replaced with cryptic "error 2") on other platforms. Thomas Shanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Trouble with vimdiff and strace on most recent cygwin

r 2) Strace always provides the same error message, while vimdiff changes the message slightly each time, sometimes adding a few extra other error messages afterwards. You can see more instances of the vimdiff error in the second attachment. Thomas Shanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

Trouble with vimdiff and strace on most recent cygwin

I'm running cygwin (x86) on Win7 x86-64. When I try to vimdiff or strace, I get the attached error messages (extraneous content removed). Why does the crash differ on different runs of vimdiff? What's strace error 2? (Why is there no error message?) -tas vimdiff-and-strace-dont-work Descrip