From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12112 invoked by alias); 17 May 2004 23:33:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12103 invoked from network); 17 May 2004 23:33:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.thesoftwaresource.com) (66.150.16.71) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 May 2004 23:33:29 -0000 Received: from thesoftwaresource.com [64.240.244.75] by mail.thesoftwaresource.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AA0631430388; Mon, 17 May 2004 19:25:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 23:43:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with pty allocation code, race condition? Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040517164018.GA9290@coe.bosbc.com> References: <200405171330.i4HDUtfu010131@mx1.cs.umb.edu> <20040517164018.GA9290@coe.bosbc.com> From: Brian Keener Reply-To: Brian Keener X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00618.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > Yes, the very latest snapshot attempts to fix this problem. Please give > it a try and report the results here. > If this is of any help as far as testing I normally start up multiple sessions for login using the following for my cygwin.bat file: @echo off SET MAKE_MODE=unix SET CYGWIN=binmode ntsec nostrip_title title tty SET PATH=d:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;d:\cygwin\usr\bin;d:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%;. D: chdir \cygwin start CMD /c bin\rxvt -geometry 90x30 -fg grey -bg midnightblue -cr red -sr -sl 2000 -fn "Lucida Console-12" -tn rxvt -e /usr/bin/login start CMD /c bin\login.exe start CMD /c bin\login.exe start CMD /c bin\login.exe exit Prior to the current snapshot depending on system load I might or might not get 4 sessions started as they should be with a login prompt. With the current snapshot 20040517 this has worked successfully repeated times with some heavy loads on my laptop. bk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/