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On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:47:30AM +0000, jorg DOT schaible AT db DOT com wrote: >unfortunately I had yesterday this weird error that calling the >function below (defined in my .bashrc) left a dangling bash process in >memory consuming 99% of my CPU time (in fact, gvim was never called >either). After some experiments I found the "error" that caused this >weird behaviour: My .bashrc had CRLF format. After changing format to >normal UNIX-style line endings, the problem vanished. > >Unfortunately everyone upgrading from B20.1 to V1.1 may have this >"experience", since the old Cygwin version mounted the root as text >while the new will mount it binary. This problem should be mensioned >explicitly somewhere in the README.TXT avoiding unnecessary trouble >after the upgrade. I have no problems modifying documentation, but I do like to understand the reasons for doing it. I don't understand why changing \r\n line endings to \n line endings causes bash to not consume 98% of your CPU. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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