From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23114 invoked by alias); 13 May 2006 22:49:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 23105 invoked by uid 22791); 13 May 2006 22:49:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-19.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.19) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 May 2006 22:49:12 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 24FF813C01F; Sat, 13 May 2006 18:49:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 22:49:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: cygwin + windows update = lock up (W2K SP4) Message-ID: <20060513224910.GA13451@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <20060503155907.GA17472@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <002001c66ed7$3d706d40$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20060503174639.GB6246@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060503174639.GB6246@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00247.txt.bz2 On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:46:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:30:15PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>On 03 May 2006 16:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:12:02AM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote: Once I >>>saw that Dave was on the case and could reproduce the problem at will, >>>I haven't been pursuing every report of this terrifying bug because we >>>actually do have someone investigating it. I did try running process >>>explorer while also running a cygwin process and did not see the >>>problem. >> >>You very specifically have to bring up the properties page for the >>process and display the "Threads" tab. It doesn't occur (any more) >>when you just select a process or even when you bring up the other >>properties page tabs. > >I'll take your word for it. > >Ok. Let me almost completely retract what I said earlier. > >I'm not going to actively try to fix the problem since you are currently >working on it and I see no reason to duplicate effort. > >If this scenario involved Corinna and me then we would gratefully let >the other person work on the problem. I appreciate the fact that you >are looking into this and have no plans on actively looking into the >issue myself. I may still provide a patch if an idea percolates into my >conscious mind (and, as usual, I have been thinking about this problem), >though. I'm not exactly sure where to send this, since it is a unique situation, but someone has contacted me off-list to offer to pay me to look into this problem. Money is always a great motivator for me, so, I've let Dave Korn know about this and have spent some time today looking into the problem. I hope that I'll have a fix sometime next week. So, I guess this means that I've retracted my retraction. I do appreciate the fact that Dave was looking at this very much, though. It really is nice to have other people besides Corinna and me looking at the code. If anyone is looking for something to do, it would be nice to have another set of eyes on the snapshot problems that I mentioned in the cygwin mailing list. cgf