Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/10/15:42:20
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:47:26PM +0100, Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:
>>On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:17:08PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>>>>Neither hang if setup is launched from bash instead of explorer.
>>>Hmm. Maybe I missed this point before. I never run setup from
>>>explorer.
I thought you might have. That is why I confirmed it again.
>>>In any event, can you set the CYGWIN_DEBUG=cygpath and maybe do some
>>>search and destroy debugging to see precisely where it is hanging?
Sorry, I just haven't had time yet. I will try soon, but I can only do
this at work. So, if I don't get to it this afternoon, it'll have to wait
until Monday.
>>I've done some experimentation with setup with similar results, and can
>>confirm that the hang depends on the environment from which setup is
>>started.
>>
>>I don't see the hang if I start setup from any kind of command window.
>>This includes:
>>1. A standard Microsoft command window.
>>4. A .bat file
>Actually, I trust Brian's observations. He's obviously a sharp guy and
>a capable programmer. I wasn't asking for confirmation there. I was
>hoping for someone to do some debugging.
Gee, thanks for the compliment.
I actually thought 1 and 4 were interesting points that had not been
stated before. Good debugging is obviously more usefull.
Consolidated reply...
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:45:25PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>>On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote:
>>>Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. There is no strace output file
>>>produced in the hang case.
>>ie. cygpath isn't in the ps of the hang either. I'm not sure if it
>>completed and strace just hasn't flushed the file, or if cygpath never
>>got spawned.
>It might be necessary to do a 'ps -W' since if cygpath is in an
>initializing or exiting state, it might not show up on a regular 'ps'.
It's not there at all.
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