Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:46:44 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running
In-Reply-To:	<NUTMEGFVjCRGryWtIIZ0000002d@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
Message-ID:	<Pine.GSO.4.61.0501241337210.3286@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
References:	<NUTMEGFVjCRGryWtIIZ0000002d AT NUTMEG DOT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> > Sent: 23 January 2005 02:33
>
> > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > > > > 1] Run "Day of Defeat" - connects and runs just fine.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > 2] Start rxvt.  Try "DoD" again. It gets about halfway
> > > > > > > > > through its startup process, then hangs.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > 3] Quit rxvt and try again. "DoD" works fine.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I tried the same procedure with the regular Cygwin bash
> > > > > > > > > shell, and it behaves the same way.
> > > > > > > > > [snip]
> > > > > > > > > Any ideas on what it could be?
>
> > Seriously, though -- must be something in the Cygwin DLL
> > inner workings
> > that's doing this, and it can't be the networking subsystem
> > (as 'sleep'
> > doesn't use it, AFAIK).  One guess is that Cygwin interferes
>
> Igor -
>
>   Remind me, what was the name of that really crappy PFW software that
> has resource leak problems and is always messing up when cygwin apps
> come into the picture?

Oh, that[*].  Yes, now that you mentioned it, I'm surprised nobody asked
that yet.  Good call -- could be just that.
	Igor
[*] Don't recall the name, either.

> Jonathan -
>
>   What PFW software are you using?

-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total
Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT

--
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/

- Raw text -