From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19648 invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2012 12:11:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 19630 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Sep 2012 12:11:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vc0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f171.google.com) (209.85.220.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:11:12 +0000 Received: by vcmm18 with SMTP id m18so3775616vcm.2 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:11:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.90.197 with SMTP id by5mr906148vdb.90.1347538271589; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.152.35 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: tcsh hang while executing scripts which use pipes with backticks From: Bryan Hogan To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00165.txt.bz2 Running 8 instances of the script from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00014.html I get the following results using cygwin 1.7.16 and tcsh 6.18.01: - OK on 32bit XP with 2 cpus - Hangs on 64bit Win2008 with 4 cpus - OK on 64bit Win2008r2 with a single cpu - Hangs on 64bit Win2008r2 with 2 cpus Those last two were the same server (a VMware VM) with the number of cpus changed. Attempting to kill the hung processes crashed the server :-( There are no problems if tcsh 6.17.0 is used. Bryan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple