Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/12/29/22:04:31
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:26:32PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>At 12:46 PM 12/27/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>I missed the 'sh -c' clue in your previous message. Since sh uses
>>>vfork, that indicates a vfork problem. I've checked in some more
>>>changes to deal with this. It seems to do the right thing both with sh
>>>-c and without. It also should have the added benefit of doing the
>>>right thing wrt deallocating the console appropriately since open_fhs
>>>should now track the ctty usecount. This was screwed up before,
>>>apparently even before I started mucking with the tty stuff.
>>>
>>>I sure do hate usage counting.
>>>
>>>cgf
>>
>>
>>Yes, that works fine now, as does bash -c inetd.
>>
>
>Sorry to jump in on this, but I run into a few problems with the changes
>you made last night and one issue which has been a problem for some time
>now.
>
>This is on my Win2k box and all problems were noticed when I logged in
>remotely via ssh (I have not tried locally). If it makes any
>difference, the /usr/src dir, where all my project and cygwin source is
>contained, is a managed mount.
>
>Issues from yesterday's checkin:
>1)When run by itself from the command line, `make` is not forking
>properly for recursive makes, instead it aborts and returns a bogus
>HANGUP signal to the console. This is easily seen when attempting to
>build the Cygwin tree. I cannot provide any useful output since it
>appears that calling the process from within gdb or through strace
>actually keeps make from failing to fork, but make still screws up the
>order of entry into subdirs.
I routinely check correct cygwin operation by building cygwin so I can't
reproduce this.
>2)`procps auxf` incorrectly identifies top-parent processes as
><defunct>, even though ps and the nt process monitor shows them to be
>valid. However, for postgres's postmaster, the parent and *all*
>children are labeled as <defunct> even though I can confirm that the
>server is up and running.
A trivial test of this, which is to run "procps auwx" from a command prompt,
does not demonstrate this here.
>3)Running configure scripts using sh.exe (which is default when you
>./configure) always hangs, whereas running them through bash.exe works
>fine (although it does hang from time to time). In either case, when it
>hangs, doing ctrl-c will drop you to the command line. However, the
>process isn't terminated, like one would expect. Also, it refuses to
>obey any signal except SIGKILL.
I don't use bash very often. I use zsh or just the command prompt. I
can run 'sh /whereever/configure' just fine.
>Existing issues since 1.5.5:
>3)I find myself involuntarily "logged-out" of my sessions at random
>intervals. This is especially prevalent when doing massive recursive
>`rm -rf`'s or `grep -rn`'s or any other form of intensive disk i/o.
>However, whatever is causing it seems to be getting fixed, since this
>happens less frequently then it used to. A small kludge I use to get
>around this is by running links.exe then using ctrl-Z to send it to a
>stopped state. Then if it tries to log me out, it will fail because I
>have a stopped process.
Again, I don't see this, so I don't know how it could be fixed.
>4)lynx crashes on startup, dropping me back to the command line.
>Running it through gdb, the segfault happens at line 81 of cygtls.cc,
>"_last_thread->next = this" which is inside the function
>_threadinfo::init_thread(void*). Unfortunately, my system is in a state
>where I cannot get make to run correctly, so trying to build a debug
>version of lynx at this point is not feasible. I should note that I do
>not see this problem inside links.
Since cygtls.c is a recent addition, this is not a 1.5.5 issue. lynx
also works fine here.
cgf
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