From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26672 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2006 13:22:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 26559 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jul 2006 13:22:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:22:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6PDMVgv025646 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:22:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:22:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: [Q] About halting problems at installation of cygwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes 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-q3/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, totolgecom wrote: > [snip] > But the progress bar didn't advance after that point, which shows > /etc/postinstall/00ash.sh for 8 hours. I couldn't help noticing the subject. Doesn't this poster know that the halting problem is undecidable[*]? So we can't really help him/her. Oops. Igor [*] -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"