Subject: bug#10674: 24.0.92; cmdproxy.exe fork-bomb

From: Simon Morgan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:50:10 +0000

On 03/02/2012 10:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Please see if ... the second one is the child of the first one and
> the parent of the third one, etc.

This is the case.

> Are you able to run cmdproxy under a debugger and see what is going on
> here?

Not currently.

> If you cannot run cmdproxy under a debugger, please tell:
>
>   . how exactly did you invoke cmdproxy from the command line to get
>     the infinite spawning problem?

Just by executing "cmdproxy.exe" while in "C:\emacs-24.0.92\bin".

>   . do you have other copies of cmdproxy.exe somewhere on your Path?

Nope:

     C:\Users\Simon>where cmdproxy
     INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).

>   . is this Windows 7 box a 32-bit or a 64-bit system?

64-bit.

>   . what is the value of the following Registry key?
>
>      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SafeProcessSearchMode

It doesn't exist.

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