Re: Funny hang with snapshop 20050920

[Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>]

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According to Christopher Faylor on 9/23/2005 6:11 PM:
> 
> There is a new snapshot up there now.  I think I've given up on the
> technique that I was trying to use to fix the Windows 98 bug.  I've
> yanked out a lot of the code and simplified things but I hope I haven't
> caused the bug to reemerge.
> 
> Could you try the 2005-09-23 snapshot?  Same rules.  I'd still like to
> know if sending a CONT to the hung process fixes it as well as ls
> /proc/nnn/fd and I'd still like to see the strace output if the process
> hangs again.
> 
> Also could anyone who could duplicate the Windows 98 error popup dialog
> confirm or deny if it is still fixed?

I ran 20050923 on my Win98 box most of the weekend.  The original report
of failures to close the console after using ssh still remain fixed; I was
no longer getting popup boxes and was able to close the console.  However,
when running process-intensive tasks (such as building coreutils CVS), I
got quite a few blue screens of death, which is new (and worse than a
popup box).  I haven't had a chance to try the 20050925 snapshot to see if
it improves matters.  I haven't downloaded the snapshot cygwin-inst
recently, so I'm not sure if the recent strace improvements help, but at
least with 20050923, 'strace -o strace.out cvs up' didn't raise a popup
box.  I'll continue investigations with more recent snapshots as time permits.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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