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Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:02:44 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: An easy (but possibly time-consuming) test case for Make hanging (was: Re: Make hung in WaitForMultipleObjects inside Cygwin)
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In-Reply-To:	<u678zmktzpy.fsf@rachel.hq.vtech>; from jojo@virtutech.se on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:57:29AM +0100

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:57:29AM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com> writes:
>
>> I've found that if you put the Makefile shown below into an empty
>> directory on a dual-processor machine running Cygwin 1.1.8-2 and Make
>> 3.79.1-2 and run "while true; do make -j2; done", you'll eventually
>> get a Make process hung as I described in my messages last week
>> (although it may take a couple of days).  You know things are hung
>> when output stops in the window in which you run the "while" loop.
>> 
>> I've reach the limit of my ability to debug this further.  Could
>> someone with more knowledge of Cygwin internals try to duplicate this,
>> using this test case?
>
>I can offer to test it on a single-CPU machine, if that is of interest.

It's not testing that is required.  It is someone who is higher limits
to their ability to debug the problem.

cgf

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